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Emission factor from ERASM SLE 2014

Cumene

European Union (27) · Cradle to gate · Any year

Each kg active substance counts as 1.24 kg CO₂e up to the factory gate.

Value for any year

1.24kgCO₂e/kg active substance

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

ERASM sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2011

Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specific

Derived by open-climate.ai

Region
European Union (27)
Boundary
Cradle to gate
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 1.24 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

open-climate.ai adds up the gases ERASM publishes, each weighted by its warming potential.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 1 1.24

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Materials › Chemicals · European Union (27) · per kg active substance · Average

Cradle to gate · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Cradle to gate
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing and purchased energy
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ERASM's AR4 figure of 1.22 kgCO₂e/kg active substance · impact method CML 2001 baseline
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Split by gas
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: not covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

All values

2 values for the same period, one per method.

1.24 kgCO₂e/kg active substance, AR6 GWP100, with no date window.

Default valueThe default: what search results and the API return when you ask for no method.

What this number covers

What ERASM counts in the figure for 1 kg active substance, phase by phase.

  1. Upstream

    • Transport to the plant
    • Raw materials
    • Fuel supply chain
    Included

  2. Production

    • Fuel combustion
    • Manufacturing
    • Purchased electricity and heat
    Included

  3. Your record

    1 kg active substance in your records. The factor is per kg active substance.

    = 1.24

Outside this boundary

  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Transport to the border
  • Retail
  • Use
  • End of life
  • Recycling credit

ERASM does not count any of this in the figure for 1 kg active substance.

Gases

Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

  • Fossil CO₂1.0987.5%
  • Methane (CH₄)0.14912%
  • Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.005460.4%
  • Biogenic CO₂0.00130.1%

Σ 1.09 + 0.149 + 0.00546 + 0.0013 = 1.24466, which ERASM rounds to 1.24.

Also printed, as zero: land-use CO₂.

Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.

From ERASM's record to a comparable factor

ERASM publishes the inputs; open-climate.ai computed this value from them. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

About this factor

ERASM gives no description for this factor. Filed under Precursors.

Source and licence

Value
Computed by open-climate.ai from the gas values in this record
Publisher
ERASM (A.I.S.E. / CESIO)
Library
ERASM SLE 2014 (IJLCA 2018)
Published
14 August 2017
CC BY 4.0 Open

The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

Credit it with this lineSchowanek D, Borsboom-Patel T, Bouvy A, et al. (2018) New and updated life cycle inventories for surfactants used in European detergents: summary of the ERASM surfactant life cycle and ecofootprinting project. Int J Life Cycle Assess 23:867-886. doi:10.1007/s11367-017-1384-x. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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Cite this factor

Schowanek D, Borsboom-Patel T, Bouvy A, et al. (2018) New and updated life cycle inventories for surfactants used in European detergents: summary of the ERASM surfactant life cycle and ecofootprinting project. Int J Life Cycle Assess 23:867-886. doi:10.1007/s11367-017-1384-x. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/erasm/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-erasm-cumene-eu27-kg_active_su-cradle_to_gate-8496cb3d/?v=efv1-3c925032f1fcf7155187a62304050544

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