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by Sara
02 Dec 2015 21:29
Forum: Modelling
Topic: recycling plastics
Replies: 4
Views: 8999

Re: recycling plastics

I'm sorry for my "late" reply but I thank you all for your answers! In the end of my work about beer bottle I excluded the impacts related to the plastic fraction recycled; I assumed that the other fraction is treated through incineration and landifilling. Thanks for the pdf document that you shared...
by Sara
02 Dec 2015 21:18
Forum: Databases
Topic: Import lcafood database
Replies: 6
Views: 12657

Re: Import lcafood database

Hi Andreas, how are you? I'm about to run a Carbon Footprint studt for professional purpose and I've just found this old post of yours with LCA FOOD converted into zolca files. I think this is very useful, but I would need some further explanation. Can I use this converted database with openLCA impa...
by Sara
23 Jun 2015 17:49
Forum: Modelling
Topic: recycling plastics
Replies: 4
Views: 8999

recycling plastics

Hi everybody, I'm running a LCA study and I have to model the end of life stage of a beer bottle. I cannot find in the ecoinvent 3.1 any activity like, for exemple, "treatment of plastic, post-consumer..." or something like these. Can you help me or, at least, can you tell me why such activities are...
by Sara
03 Dec 2013 19:03
Forum: Modelling of the Inventory
Topic: negative values among the inventory inputs
Replies: 7
Views: 10622

Re: negative values among the inventory inputs

Hi Andreas, I checked the system and here are some considerations. I didn't put any avoided products in my processes and all the water inputs in the whole system seem to be positive. Through the analysis tool in openLCA I saw that the negative values are related to fertiliser production, that is rel...
by Sara
25 Nov 2013 13:20
Forum: Modelling of the Inventory
Topic: negative values among the inventory inputs
Replies: 7
Views: 10622

Re: negative values among the inventory inputs

I forgot: my reference process has only one product that is 1 kg of onions and no emissions or waste because they are already included in the inputs processes.
by Sara
25 Nov 2013 12:49
Forum: Modelling of the Inventory
Topic: negative values among the inventory inputs
Replies: 7
Views: 10622

Re: negative values among the inventory inputs

Hi Andreas, I did the following: 1. I chose some processes in agricultural means of production category (such as irrigating, sowing, tillage, ecc.) and I made copies of them in order to modify them entering my data (included some specific water consumption data). I didn't remove any of the existing ...
by Sara
23 Nov 2013 17:57
Forum: Modelling of the Inventory
Topic: negative values among the inventory inputs
Replies: 7
Views: 10622

Re: negative values among the inventory inputs

Hi, in order to solve the problem I mentioned in the previous post, I dowloaded and checked the matrices (both). In the matrices the values are all negative because they are all input flows. So I think that it isn't a data related issue, nor a modelling related one....but the problem is that I am pr...
by Sara
21 Nov 2013 18:06
Forum: Modelling of the Inventory
Topic: negative values among the inventory inputs
Replies: 7
Views: 10622

negative values among the inventory inputs

Hi everybody, I'm running an LCA study and I think I'm having problems with the inventory. The LCA in question is about onions production and the aim is to asses blue water footprint. The system is very simple (it's just a sort of "training "case study) and I'm using Ecoinvent 2.1. I have installed ...
by Sara
29 Aug 2013 12:01
Forum: Other
Topic: differente results in the alu can vs pet bottle" case study
Replies: 4
Views: 9604

Re: differente results in the alu can vs pet bottle" case st

Hi,
just to have a further confirmation referring to my previous post: I obtained different results also in the comparison of ALU can recycling scenarios (see the picture below). Is this related to the same bug you mentioned?
chart_recyclingALU.png
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Thanks again,
Sara
by Sara
20 Aug 2013 21:40
Forum: Other
Topic: differente results in the alu can vs pet bottle" case study
Replies: 4
Views: 9604

Re: differente results in the alu can vs pet bottle" case st

Thanks Sebastian. I have to specify that I posted a graph that I had by trying some modifications in the tutorial exercise. By using the exact figures of the tutorial the graph was a little different from the one I posted but also still very different from the tutorial results...so I didn't re-post ...