Fatty alcohol (fatty alcohol production - from palm oil)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. Fatty alcohol' represents an organic substance. The compounds consists of an alcohol with a long aliphatic chain and the molecular formula is: CH3(CH2)nOH (n=5-21). The aliphatic chain is predominantly linear and can be saturated or unsaturated. The compounds are mostly liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. It is modelled as a pure substance. On a consumer level, they are used in the following products: detergents, surfactants, cosmetics and nutrition. On industrial sites, these substances are used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: chemicals. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.