Methyl acrylate (production - methanol esterification with acrylic acid)

The activity generating the emissions is methyl acrylate production, methanol esterification with acrylic acid. The Reference Product is methyl acrylate. Methyl acrylate is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000096-33-3. It is called methyl acrylate under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C4H6O2. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and may have a pungent odour. It is modelled as a pure substance. 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: polymers. This substance is used for the synthesis of other substances (use as intermediate). 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/93771/documentation