New EPD's not giving results

Question

I have different EPD's but I can not get any results when I add them to my processes.

I imported EPD from EC3, it creates a flow by itself, I even created a process for this material but what ever I do I get 0 results when I analyse the processes. COuld you please explain this clearly, because I saw similar questions but there is no answer

Answer 1

I think this will be described in the next manual; so here only a quick summary: when you import an EPD it will import results for the respective life cycle phases of that EPD. These results are related to the declared product of that EPDs and can be linked in product systems. In your processes you would add these products as inputs and you can connect these inputs to the respective EPD results in a product system then. Currently, you can only add an EPD result via drag-and-drop to a product system but it can be linked like a normal process or sub-system then. When calculating results, you need to make sure that you select the matching LCIA method of the linked EPD results.

Comments

You could create a combined LCIA method with the impact categories of both methods.