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

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. Esterquat' are organic substances which consist of a quaternary ammonium cation and two fatty acid chains (C16-C18) with two weak ester linkages. They are solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. They are modelled as pure substances. On a consumer level, they are used in the following products: fabric softeners. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of these substances on industrial sites. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.