Read more on our dedicated open source page. Contact us if you are interested, and find examples here.Īnd by the way, the fact that openLCA is open source causes no obligation to publish or make accessible any data you use, or models you create in openLCA. (2012), as implemented in Ecological Scarcity 2013 Ratio of species densities of biomes 1 to 4 to species density in biome 5 Freshwater consumption Ecological Scarcity 2013 Water stress index (WSI). This makes openLCA also suited for work in highly sensitive areas, but also in education and research.įurther, openLCA is also well suited for tailored software, developed by you or by us. Hi, I'm trying to create a flow (eg, 316steel) and I want to categorize the flow with the existing. Background ecoinvent 3.1 allocation, default ecoinvent Geographies.xml Impact category LCIA method Regionalised parameter Land use de Baan et al. If you want you can inspect the code for any potential issues including security issues and any malicious behaviour. Since the code and program is accessible, you see the quality of our work. We believe this fits perfectly to Life Cycle and Sustainability Assessment as a user, this brings you flexibility, you do not need to worry about software codes, and are not locked in, and bound by, a closed source, black box software. Impact Assessment: Compatible with the openLCA LCIA 2.0.5 method package Data quality systems: Are provided in the database Regionalized LCIA methods: None Calculation for multi-output processes: Processes with multiple output products have been assigned with allocation factors, which should be considered in the calculation. One reason for its development was to make LCA and Sustainability Assessment more accessible and affordable, and we are grateful for supporters for the project, initially in Europe and later on especially in the US.Īs a result, openLCA is completely free, without any license costs, and there is no catch. This is uncommon for LCA software, where other main software packages are closed source, with costs for a business licence of several thousand Euros. Since its beginning, openLCA is an open source software, according to the standards of the open source initiative.

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