Fatty alcohol (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for fatty alcohol. The reference product is fatty alcohol. Fatty alcohol is an organic substance. It is called an alcohol with a long aliphatic chain under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: CH3(CH2)nOH (n=5-21). The aliphatic chain is predominantly linear and can be saturated or unsaturated. It is mostly liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. 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: detergents, surfactants, cosmetics and nutrition. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: chemicals. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/1873/documentation.