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Hi. Hope everything going fine. 

I have assessed the dataset from ecoinvent 3.6 Liquefied petroleum gas RoW market for, APOS, U with Recipe midpoint H 2016 and I get a different result than with Simapro. I´ve been looking the results from Simapro and I find that the Recipe method dont include the impacts from nitrogen as shown in the image below

I export the results from OpenLCA and exclude the following emissions

Flow

Category

Sub-category

Unit

Nitrogen

Emission to water

ground water

1.306E-10

Nitrogen

Emission to water

ocean

8.708E-09

Nitrogen

Emission to water

surface water

2.877E-06

Nitrogen

Emission to water

unspecified

2.053E-06

And I assessed the impacts shown in the attached file using the impact factors from the récipe method in OpenLCA. The results from Simapro are 3.47 E-6 and those are the results shown in the following table. I would really appreciate if you could tell me the reason of the differences.

FlowCategoryUnitAmmountFactorMarine Euthophication
Ammonium, ionEmission to waterkg1.10E-070.232.53E-08
Ammonium, ionEmission to waterkg3.74E-070.238.61E-08
Ammonium, ionEmission to waterkg1.07E-100.7768.32E-11
Ammonium, ionEmission to waterkg1.07E-060.232.46E-07
Ammonium, ionEmission to waterkg8.41E-070.231.93E-07
NitrateEmission to waterkg4.98E-060.06713.34E-07
NitrateEmission to waterkg2.91E-050.06711.95E-06
NitrateEmission to waterkg1.38E-080.2263.12E-09
NitrateEmission to waterkg5.05E-060.06713.39E-07
NitrateEmission to waterkg1.57E-070.06711.06E-08
NitriteEmission to waterkg4.44E-090.09024.00E-10
NitriteEmission to waterkg1.96E-080.09021.77E-09
NitriteEmission to waterkg2.86E-100.3048.70E-11
NitriteEmission to waterkg5.46E-080.09024.93E-09
NitriteEmission to waterkg2.29E-080.09022.06E-09
Nitrogen dioxideEmission to water7.32E-130.09026.60E-14
Nitrogen, organic boundEmission to water1.33E-070.2973.96E-08
Nitrogen, organic boundEmission to water5.89E-070.2971.75E-07
Nitrogen, organic boundEmission to water1.89E-070.2975.62E-08
Nitrogen, organic boundEmission to water2.76E-100.2978.19E-11
Total3.47E-06

I would like to know if I should exclude Nitrogen atmospheric emissiones from my assessment.

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