Using imported EPDs in openlca 2.0

Question

I am trying to perform a LCA for a product of my company, and as there are already verified EPDs of some components of my product, i imported them with the hope to easily use the informations of the EPD. But when i add the flow of the EPD as an input, i dont get the environmental influences of the EPD added to my LCA.

Answer 1

how do you add the EPD as an input? i'm neither able to do this passage...

Answer 2

We'll explain this in the handbook, you need to use the results (for LC stages typically) that are part of an EPD, as input into your own product system, not the EPD itself, which is covering the full life cycle.

Comments

Which handbook? Can you provide a link please.

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https://manuals.openlca.org/openlca/
but see also the youtube video on EPDs in openLCA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpM7CHyrIkQ&pp

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Hello,

I have the same question and I watched the youtube video. It shows how to link to EC3 and other options where EPDs have been digitized. What if my EPD isn't in EC3 or digitized? Is there another approach to enter the EPD impact factors manually?

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your last commen is more a new question - you can now also import EPDs from soda4LCA nodes, in version 2.5, but of course you can create an EPD in openLCA new from scratch, and results for each stage, manually and enter results there.