Emission Factor

Casting - steel - lost-wax (casting - steel - lost-wax)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. This is delivering the service of 'casting steel lost-wax'. Lost-wax casting is a process for creating objects from simple to complex in a variety of metals (such as gold silver brass or bronze) by casting an original model or pattern. This dataset represents the casting of 1 kg of steel small parts and precision parts with an average mass of 61 kg and the biggest ones weighting 91 kg by lost-wax casting. The service includes steel input mold manufacturing melting of stainless steel and alloy inputs casting thermal treatment straightening cutting grinding and non-destructive testing. It also includes water and energy consumption emissions and materials` end-of-life. However it excludes the final product material and alloying additives. Lost-wax casted steel is used in industries requiring mass produced metal parts with a high level of dimensional accuracy producing critical components for medical automotive aerospace and nuclear energy applications. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameCasting - steel - lost-wax (casting - steel - lost-wax)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMetals
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.10
Region
Unit Type
Year
2012
Year Released
2023
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
metals-type_casting_steel_lost_wax_casting_steel_lost_wax
UUID
274f6b71-e473-45a5-a443-083d18a832de
Code Snippet
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