Dioctyl adipate (production)

The activity generating the emissions is dioctyl adipate production. The reference product is dioctyl adipate. Dioctyl adipate is an organic substance with the CAS no.: 000123-79-5. It is called dioctyl hexanedioate under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C22H42O4. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure as a colorless to yellowish liquid with a slight, aromatic smell. 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 are no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used as a plasticizer for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: synthetic rubbers, nitro cellulose and ethyl cellulose. 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/25911/documentation.