Systems with more than one process

Question

Hello,

I want to create a larger system that has more than 1 process. For example, I have three different stages (agriculture - olive cultivation, product processing - olive oil production and biomass valorization - combustion on olive pomace to obtain energy) simulated individually and I want to join them to have a global system that includes these 3 different stages and be able to compare it with another global system. Is it possible to do this in OpenLCA?

In the Simapro this can be done in "Product stages" but in OpenLCA I can not do it.

Answer 1

Yes, this is of course possible. You can connect/link processes by having the quantitative reference of one process as an input for another process. Check out our free tutorials to learn how this works: http://www.openlca.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/1.5-Basic-Modelling.pdf