O-nitrotoluene (nitrotoluenes production - toluene nitration)

The activity generating the emissions is nitrotoluenes production, toluene nitration. The reference product is o-nitrotoluene. O-nitrotoluene is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 88-72-2. It is called 1-methyl-2-nitrobenzene under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C7H7NO2. It is a clear yellow liquid that crystallizes at lower temperatures to solid a- or ß-forms, depending on conditions with a weak aromatic odor. 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. 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/28862/documentation.