Phenol (salicylic acid production)

The activity generating the emissions is salicylic acid production. The reference product is phenol. Phenol is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000108-95-2. It is called phenol under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C6H6O. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure, has a crystalline form and has an odour characteristic of aromatic compounds. 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: coating products, fillers, putties, plasters, modelling clay, inks and toners and polymers. 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/17042/documentation.