Question

How do i import EPD data in csv or xml format from Eco Portal into OpenLCA?

Answer 1

Maybe you need to be more specific?

But afterthought, I guess you mean the eco platform, https://www.eco-platform.org/epd-data.html. There, the "xml" is ILCD, and the csv is a simple table. The simple table cannot be imported, and ILCD can maybe be imported into openLCA but I did no test it.

Maybe you can try and report back?

Thanks a lot, best wishes, Andreas

edit after the comment (thank you for it):

Indeed, downloading one arbitrary example

retrieves a very small ILCD archive with a funny name as well:

which has only one flow

So this seems to be on the eco passport side.

Comments

Thank you - yes, it is the ECO Platform as you reffer to. If i choose to download the "xml" from there, it is downloaded as a zip-file with directories "ILCD" and sub-directories "contacts, external_docs, flows, processes, sources".

So - back to Open LCA: When i choose "Import..." the wizard allows me to choose between "file import", "ILCD network import" and "other". The first of these allows me to choose "EcoSpold, Excel, ILCD and Simapro CSV" When choosing ILCD I get the file imported, but it seems to be just a system process with only an output flow with no other flows included. The idea is to use the EPD data as specific data to model one of the material inputs to the product which I am making an EPD for. The EPD from the source is 15804 A1 and the EPD I am making is also 15804 A1.

Any idea on what I am doing wrong?

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you are right - I will edit my anwer

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Thanks again! I did not understand your final remark: "So this seems to be on the eco passport side." What do you mean? Is it that the files will not suit the purpose of being datasets to utilize in LCA modelling or was it that I did the import the wrong way?

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You are welcome - I meant that already before the import, on the ecopassport website and thus side, the "EPD" has only one flow, which does not make sense I think.