Vinyl chloride (production)

The activity generating the emissions is vinyl chloride production. The Reference Product is vinyl chloride. Vinyl chloride, is a plastic product of fossil origin. It is a precursor substance meant to be used for the further production of plastics. It is gas under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and mostly odourless (50%), biting (25%) or it has other odour (25%). The product is used in the following applications and sectors: Vinyl chloride is an important commercial chemical and Its major use is in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other copolymer plastics. Other industrial uses include intermediates, laboratory chemicals, wire and cable manufacture, while for consumer uses, i can be used as building/construction materials, petrochemical manufacturing, plastic and rubber products. 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/276343/documentation