Barium oxide (production)

The activity generating the emissions is barium oxide production. The reference product is barium oxide. Barium oxide is used to produce oil additives and other additives for greases. Furthermore, it is used to produce barium salts that have application in plastics production. It is also used in production of luminescent products (Kresse et al., 2007). Reference(s): Kresse, R., Baudis, U., Jäger, P., Riechers, H. H., Wagner, H., Winkler, J. and Wolf, H. U. 2007. Barium and Barium Compounds. Ullmanns Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 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/16036/documentation.