Parametric data input

Question

I am searching for a way to parameterize the characteristic of a beam model as an input for LCA analysis. to be more specific, I have thousands of data on the weight, height, width, material of a beam. i wonder if I can use them all in open LCA. Do you think is possible now? if not, do. you know other platform to be able to do it ?

Thank you

Answer 1

Hi Shirin,

openLCA allows you to fully parametrized any LCA model. You can as well use the scripting capability if you need to analyse a lot of datasets.

Check out the openLCA manual for more details.

Regards,

François

Comments

You can check the openLCA manual for using the parameters (https://greendelta.github.io/openLCA2-manual/parameters/parameter_sets.html).
There is a case study video where parameters are used to switch from different location: https://youtu.be/4iwIvqn-d3c?t=1434.
You might also be interested in interacting with openLCA with Python: https://greendelta.github.io/openLCA-ApiDoc/ipc/examples/pyipc_from_scratch.html.