Acetoacetic acid (production)

The activity generating the emissions is acetoacetic acid production. The reference product is acetoacetic acid. Acetoacetic acid is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000541-50-4. It is called 3-oxobutanoic acid under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C4H6O3. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. It is modelled as a pure substance. Because of its instability in organic synthesis acetoacetic acid is normally used as ester. 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: chemicals, especially as starting materials in the synthesis of intermediates for drugs, dyes, and agrochemicals. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/7363/documentation.