Difficulties with allocation in openLCA 1.4

Question

Hi Andrews,

I am using Open LCA 1.4. I am having some difficulties for economic allocation. Do I need to use economic flow property for economic allocation?
I need guideline for the procedure of economic allocation in open LCA.

Answer 1

Hi, in 1.4, you indeed need economic flow properties for economic allocation, which are the same in any process where a flow is used. Therefore, we have implemented in newer versions of openLCA the possibility to enter costs and revenues for each input and output in a process, and these entries are used before any flow properties, for economic allocation. I would therefore recommend to switch to 1.6.
Hth,
Andreas