Methyl vinyl ketone (production - from acetone and formaldehyde)

The activity generating the emissions is methyl vinyl ketone production, from acetone and formaldehyde. The Reference Product is methyl vinyl ketone. Methyl vinyl ketone is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 78-94-4 It is called but-3-en-2-one under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C4H6O It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure with a penetrating odor The substance 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 are no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used for industrial synthesis and as a precursor for pharmaceuticals. 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/275911/documentation