Barium oxide (barium oxide production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product barium oxide is used to produce oil additives and other additives for greases. Furthermore it is used to produce barium salts that have application in plastics production. It is also used in production of luminescent products (Kresse et al. 2007). Reference(s): Kresse R. Baudis U. Jäger P. Riechers H. H. Wagner H. Winkler J. and Wolf H. U. 2007. Barium and Barium Compounds. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.