Methyl formate (production)

The activity generating the emissions is methyl formate production. The reference product is methyl formate. Methyl formate is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000107-31-3. It is called methyl formate under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C2H4O2. It is 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. 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: laboratory chemicals. This substance is used for the synthesis of other substances (use as intermediate). 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/7664/documentation.