Summary

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How to use this manual

WELCOME - Manual openLCA 2

• Introduction
  • Why openLCA was started
  • openLCA now
  • What you can do with openLCA
  • GreenDelta GmbH - about the developer
  • openLCA 2 - new features
• How to get openLCA running
  • Hardware requirements
  • Download and installation
  • Adjust memory
  • Download fast libraries
• Resources
  • openLCA.org
  • openLCA Nexus
  • ask.openlCA

Welcome to openLCA!

• openLCA key features with an LCA case study

The basics for openLCA

• Running openLCA for the first time

  • Toolbar: File
  • Toolbar: Database
  • Toolbar: Tools
  • Toolbar: Help
  • openLCA search function
  • Using the editor function
  • Working with tabs

• Databases

  • Database elements
  • Creating a new database loading it from file
  • Creating a new database from scratch
  • Database update
  • Importing data and combining databases
  • Using mapping files and validating databases
  • Exporting databases

• Flows

  • Creating a new flow
  • Flow tabs

• Processes

  • Creating a new process
  • Process tabs
    • General information
    • Inputs/Outputs
    • Documentation
    • Parameters
    • Allocation
    • Social aspects
    • Direct impacts

• Product Systems

  • Creating a new product system
  • Product system tabs
  • Model graph
  • Advanced product systems features
  • Calculating a product system
  • Exporting/saving product systems

• LCIA methods and categories

  • Importing LCIA methods and categories into openLCA
  • Creating a new impact assessment method, category and characterization factor
  • Methods tabs
  • Category tabs
    • General information (including impact direction)
    • Characterization factors
    • Parameters
    • Regionalized calculation
    • Similarities
  • Overview impact methods

• Calculation and Result Analysis

  • Lazy vs Eager calculation
  • Result analysis
    • General information
    • Inventory result
    • Impact analysis
    • Process results
    • Contribution tree
    • Grouping
    • Locations
    • Sankey diagram
    • Analysis groups
    • LCIA checks
  • Save and export results

• Projects

  • Creating a new Project
  • Report template
  • Project results
  • Project report

• Waste modelling

• Allocation

• Parameters

  • Parameter types
  • Parameter hierarchy
  • Parameter sets
  • Parameter analysis
  • Advanced: Dependent parameters

• Background data

Guidance for LCA practitioners

• Model validation in openLCA

The advanced knowledge base

• Advanced Topics
  • Regionalized LCA
  • Life Cycle Costing
  • Social aspects
  • Data Quality
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Modelling with time parameter
  • First test version of integrating system dynamics into openLCA
• Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
  • Creating new processes for target products
  • Create product systems from your processes
  • Calculate the impact assessment
  • Save your results
  • Creating EPDs in openLCA
  • Importing EPD results from various sources
    • Adding EPDs manually
    • Using soda4LCA
    • Import EPDs from openEPD
    • Using ILCD import
  • Using results of EPDs in life cycle models
  • Uploading EPDs on SmartEPD
• Libraries
  • Adding a library to a database
  • Exporting a database as a library
  • Library file system
• Scripting in openLCA
• Collaboration in Teams
• openLCA cheat sheet
  • Usage
  • Direct impact calculations in processes
  • openLCA and Excel
  • Tags
  • Constants, operators and functions for formulas in openLCA
  • Shortcuts in openLCA
  • Searching for CAS numbers in openLCA

Updates

• Latest manual updates
• Latest software updates

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