Ethylene dichloride (production - from ethylene chlorination)

The activity generating the emissions is ethylene dichloride production, from ethylene chlorination. The Reference Product is ethylene dichloride. Ethylene dichloride is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000107-06-2. It is called 1,2-dichloroethane under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C2H4Cl2. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure with a strong odor like chloroform. 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: polymers. 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/909/documentation