Livestock feed pellets are produced industrially by mixing and pressing a variety of ingredients. The present data refer to livestock feed production in DLG Fabrik Aalborg (DLG) in 2001 where the main production processes are following: 1) Ingredient such as corn, soy meal, rape seed are received and stored 2) the ingredients are mixed and crushed 3) the mixture is pressed into pellets while steam is added, 4) the pellets are dried and cooled and stored for distribution. Products are distributed to farmers in trucks and no packaging is applied. No wastewater is generated during the production process.
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Inputs | Unit | Quantity | |
Ingredients | ton | 1 | |
Electricity | kWh | 53.5 | |
Heat | MJ | 140 | |
Water | l | 64.3 | |
Outputs | Livestock feed | ton | 1 |
Packaging waste | kg | 0.362 | |
Waste for deposit | kg | 0.114 |
Location
in database: |
Grønt regnskab 2001;
DLG Fabrik Aalborg.
Data URL: http://www.lcafood.dk/processes/industry/livestockfeedproduction.html
Version no.: 1.00
Authors: Per H. Nielsen,
2.-0 LCA Consultants.
Data entry:
Data have been entered in this format by Per H. Nielsen.
Data completed: July 2003.