Enzymes (production)

The activity generating the emissions is enzymes production. The Reference Product is enzymes. Enzymes refer to the organic substance group of enzymes, represented by a mix of three enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts which can accelerate reactions. Enzymes are mostly liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. The product is modelled as a mixture of 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: Besides their biologic funtions (e.g. in the human metabolism), enzymes are applied in varius industries, as the biofuel industry, brewing industry, cooking industy, dairy industry, food processing, molecular biology, paper industry, personal care industry and the starch industry. 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 transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/17118/documentation