Emission Factor

Melamine (production)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is melamine production. The reference product is melamine. Melamine is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 108-78-1. It is called 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C3H6N6. Other names are Cyanurotriamide, Cyanuramide, Isomelamine, and Cyanurotriamine. Melamine is at room temperature a fine white powered crystal. Its solubility in water is depending on temperature. Almost 100% of melamine is produced out of urea. Different production techniques can be distinguished. All of them are either high-pressure reactions without any catalysts or catalytic reactions at low pressure. This product represents a 50:50 mix of melamine produced by the BASF process (as representative for the low-pressure reactions) and the Montedison process (example of high pressure process). Most melamine is used for the reaction with formaldehyde for the production of resins used in laminating and adhesive applications. Among these applications, one of the most important ones is the use of melamine for the upper sheet e. g. of tabletops. A second important use of melamine is its function as amino cross-linker in heat-cured systems - e. g. in the automotive industry. Furthermore, this substance is also applied in other fields like wet-strength resins for paper industry, ion-exchange resins, plastic moulding compounds or fire retardants in PUR foam. 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/5609/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameMelamine (production)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryChemical Products
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2000
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
chemicals-type_melamine_melamine_production
UUID
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