I would like to know how to map flows from the EF database to my main Ecoinvent one.

Question

I understand that EF is for product footprints and come along with disclaimers and limitations, but there are some processes that I would like to model which I cannot find a very good alternative for in Ecoinvent

Comments

For sure, many processes are quite old! I work mainly with polymers, and have found quite a few that either are not found in Ecoinvent, or there is only data for the monomers, which would miss out the polymerisation processing

Answer 1

I understand, but be aware of the license limitations. If these are observed, you can of course apply a mapping, start  maybe from the ILCD mapping file in openLCA (which you get when you create a new database with reference data) and refine that as needed.

Comments

How do I do this? I was trying with the "Flow Mapping" option under "Tools" in openLCA 2.4.1, according to the video/instructions I found online, but it was not successful

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Check this please in the manual, e.g. apply a mapping file when importing the database into the ecoinvent database