Adipic acid (production)

The activity generating the emissions is adipic acid production. The reference product is adipic acid. Adipic acid is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000124-04-9. It is called hexanedioic acid under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C6H10O4. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure, has a white colour and has a crystalline form. 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. On a consumer level, is used in the following products: washing & cleaning products. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: pH regulators and water treatment products, polymers and leather 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 ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/3048/documentation.