Esterquat (treatment of tallow to)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of tallow to esterquat. The Reference Product is esterquat. 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 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/9769/documentation