Calcium carbide - technical grade (calcium carbide production)

The activity generating the emissions is calcium carbide production, technical grade. The Reference Product is calcium carbide, technical grade. Calcium carbide, technical grade is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : 000075-20-7. It is called calcium acetylene under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C2Ca. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and may have a powder form. 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. On a consumer level, is used in the following products: fuels, laboratory chemicals and metals. This substance has an industrial use resulting in manufacture of another substance (use of intermediates). On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: pH regulators and water treatment products. This substance is used for the synthesis of other substances (use as intermediate). The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/369/documentation