Cyanoacetic acid (production)

The activity generating the emissions is cyanoacetic acid production. The reference product is cyanoacetic acid. Cyanoacetic acid is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000372-09-8. It is called 2-cyanoacetic acid under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C3H3NO2. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and is soluble in water, ethanol and diethyl ether. 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: chemicals and pharmaceuticals. 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/4080/documentation.