Coal tar (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for coal tar. The reference product is coal tar. Coal tar is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 008007-45-2. It consists of approximately 10 000 chemicals, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, methylated and polymethylated derivatives, mono- and polyhydroxylated derivatives and heterocyclic compounds. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure as a dark, viscous liquid. 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: pharmaceuticals and construction. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/2080/documentation.