Defining boundaries when product flows have background processes

Question

Maybe this question is asked before, I am new user of openLCA trying to analyze the lifecycle impact from a bunch of product flows. Because each product flow in the input section belongs to a specific process (provider) the calculations take into account all the background processes as well. Just wondering if there is a way to only include the process listed in the input section without including the background processes related to that particular input flow. Thanks

Answer 1

With "the processes in the input section" you mean the products, right? You can make a product system without the autocomplete function, then you only have your starting process in the calculation, you can also remove the provider processes (!) for the products in the process and then check "only link default providers", or you can set a quantitative threshold for the cut-off.

Best wishes,

Andreas