Acetyl chloride (production)

The activity generating the emissions is acetyl chloride production. The reference product is acetyl chloride. Acetyl chloride is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000075-36-5. It is called acetyl chloride under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C2H3ClO. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and has a pungent odour. 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. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: plant protection products, pharmaceuticals and polymers. This substance has an industrial use resulting in manufacture of another substance (use of intermediates). 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/6857/documentation.