Sodium tetrahydridoborate (production - Brown-Schlesinger process)

The activity generating the emissions is sodium tetrahydridoborate production, Brown-Schlesinger process. The Reference Product is sodium tetrahydridoborate. Sodium tetrahydridoborate is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : 016940-66-2. It is called sodium tetrahydroborate under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: BH4.Na. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and is odourless. 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: paper chemicals and dyes, pharmaceuticals and metal surface treatment products. 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/3898/documentation