Wood preservative - creosote (wood preservative production)

The activity generating the emissions is wood preservative production, creosote. The reference product is wood preservative, creosote. Wood preservative, creosote is an organic substance. It is a creosote WEI type C according to EN 13991 (also called heavy oil, dead oil) for the use class 4 (use classes according to EN 335-1:2005). It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. It is modelled as a mix of hydrocarbons. 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: construction and agriculture. Creosote is commonly used to preserve and waterproof cross ties/railway sleepers, pilings, telephone poles, power line poles, marine pilings, and fence posts. 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/7196/documentation.