Glyoxal (production)

The activity generating the emissions is glyoxal production. The reference product is glyoxal. Glyoxal is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000107-22-2. It is called oxaldehyde under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C2H2O2. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure with a weak, sour odor. It is modelled as a pure substance. Modelling this substance in a solution requires the user to add the solvent of their choice in their models. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: textiles, paper, chemicals and polymers. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/9406/documentation.