• General information: here you can view and modify the name of the flow, add a description, additional details or tags, and create a process using the flow as reference.

Note on "Infrastructure flow": This checkbox serves to store whether a flow is infrastructure flow or not (so, the flow is a product with long lifetime and costly – a building, a machinery, …). This is a mandatory field in the EcoSpold1 format and also used by SimaPro e.g.. In openLCA, it has no practical effect.

• Used in Processes (for product and waste flows only): This section shows the processes that consume or produce the flow. Double-clicking on a process will open it in the editor for further exploration.

• Additional Information: You can use this section to include extra details like CAS number, chemical formula, location, and synonyms to facilitate search and identification of the flow.

Flow editor - General information tab

Under the "Flow Properties" section, you can to modify the reference property of the flow. Clicking on the green plus icon, you can also add any other properties relevant to the flow (e.g. economic properties, technical properties etc.). Alternatively, you can add new properties right-clicking on the property table and select "Create new". When you enter an additional flow property, you need also to enter a conversion factor to allows conversion between different properties.

Add/edit flow properties

Conversion factors are given in the "Formula" column

For elementary flows only, you have a third tab called "Characterization Factors". Within this tab, you can view the impact category or categories in which the flow is involved (if any), the impact method associated with the category, the location associated with the flow (if any), the characterization factor for each impact category, and the corresponding unit.

Elementary flow: Characterization factors