ethylene glycol diethyl ether production, UPR, ecoinvent 3.6, Undefined

Categories:
ISIC4 categories:
C:Manufacturing/20:Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products/201:Manufacture of basic chemicals, fertilizers and nitrogen compounds, plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms/2011:Manufacture of basic chemicals
Location:
RER - Europe
Reference year: 2000 - 2007
Description

Location: RER - Europe
This dataset represents the production of 1 kg of ethylene glycol diethyl ether from ethylene glycol monoethyl ether and monochloroethane. Raw materials are modelled with a stoichiometric calculation, Energy consumptions and emissions are estimated. Infrastructure is included with a default value.
[The full documentation of this dataset was originally provided in the corresponding ecoinvent report from the Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, which is accessible for free to guests and users of ecoinvent version 2 (https://www.ecoinvent.org/login-databases.html). The dataset may subsequently have been subjected to central changes to the database, as described in the respective change report for each new release.]
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.

Technology

Ethylene glycol diethyl ether is produced by a reaction of ethylene glycol monoethyl ether with monochloroethane.
C4H10O2 + C2H5Cl → C6H14O2 + HCl
The hydrochloric acid is neutralized with sodium hydroxide.
Overall reaction:
C4H10O2 + C2H5Cl + NaOH → C6H14O2 + NaCl + H2O

Reference:
Rebsdat, S., Mayer, D.: Ethylene glycol. Published online: 2000. In: Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Seventh Edition, 2004 Electronic Release (ed. Fiedler E., Grossmann G., Kersebohm D., Weiss G. and Witte C.). 7 th Elec-tronic Release Edition. Wiley InterScience, New York, Online-Version under: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9783527306732/home

Process type
Unit
Supported nomenclature
ecoinvent 3.6
LCI modeling approach
Before modeling
Multifunctional modeling
NONE
Format
ECOSPOLD2
Aggregation type
NOT_APPLICABLE
Data provider
ecoinvent
Review status
External
Cost
For sale
License

ecoinvent EULA