Sand-lime brick (sand-lime brick production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product "sand-lime brick" represents 1 kg of sand-lime brick produced from natural silica sand milled quicklime additives and water. Its production includes raw material provision raw material mixing forming by pressing hardening by autoclave packing and storage. Sand-lime lightweight bricks are insulating bricks with a low apparent density (700 to 900 kg/m3). The most important use of sand-lime bricks in the building sector are: Masonry (supporting walls parting wall casing) fair-faced brickwork and Facing/Casing. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.