Ethyl acrylate (production - ethanol esterification with acrylic acid)

The activity generating the emissions is ethyl acrylate production, ethanol esterification with acrylic acid. The Reference Product is ethyl acrylate. Ethyl acrylate is an organic substance with a CAS no.: 140-88-5. It is called ethyl prop-2-enoate under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C5H8O2. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure . The substance is modelled with a purity of 99.5%. There are 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: polymers used as coatings, paints, adhesives, and binders for leather, paper, textiles, and in the production of acrylic fibres. 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/94143/documentation