Location: GLO - Global
This process involves the conversion of methanol to the generic market for solvent for chromatography applications. When obtaining chromatography solvent from this generic market, the only driving force for the choice of a solvent will be the market price.
When the use of methanol is mandatory, this will be obtained from the market for methanol. In such case, the user will be accessing a niche market, because it defines specific product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs. When there are no specific product attributes to be fulfilled, these will be satisfied in the generic market. In the generic market the consumption of one product over another wil only be driven by best available price and not by the product attributes.
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.