Esterquat (production - from coconut oil and palm kernel oil)

The activity generating the emissions is esterquat production, from coconut oil and palm kernel oil. The reference product is esterquat. Esterquat represents organic substances which consist of a quaternary ammonium cation and two fatty acid chains (C16-C18) with two weak ester linkages. Esterquats are solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. They are modelled as pure substances. Modelling this substance in a solution requires the user to add the solvent of their choice in their models. On a consumer level, is used in the following products: fabric softeners. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on industrial sites. 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/8595/documentation.