Esterquat (treatment of tallow to esterquat)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product esterquat' represents organic substances which consist of a quaternary ammonium cation and two fatty acid chains (C16-C18) with two weak ester linkages. Esterquats are solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. They are modelled as pure substances. 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: fabric softeners. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on industrial sites. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.