I am using ecoinvent and am trying to build a Fischer Tropsch process. I therefore created different processes like electrolyzer, washer, reverse Water-Gas shift and Fischer Tropsch reactor with the different flows as Input/Outputs. I have multiple problems that might be solved easily as I am not very experienced with OpenLCA.
1.) Let's say there is a Purge Flow as waste stream after the FT reactor. Some containments like CO or carbohydrate chains are not available as flow properties, so I can't just build the flows like they are in real life.
2.) I tried adding them as seperate output flow which technically they are not, but the program doesn't care, as long as the amount of CO eg is the sum of the content of all flows.. Problem: Also as flows some C20+ chains don't exist and most of them not as a product or waste stream but as elementary flow. I am only interested in CO2eq and most of them are not relevant for this impact category, but still... any solution?
3.) What if I have Product and Waste streams as output, both including CO? I can't add it as property of a flow and also not as waste. Also can't just sum everything up, because one waste stream is a recycled one, another is a "real" waste stream.
Help is much appreciated.
