Import final environmental impacts

Question

Goodmorning,

I have the final environmental impacts (from the EPD) of a product, but i don't have the flow or the process; how can I create them based on these results?

Otherwise, how can I import these impacts from a file to my database?

Thank you,

Bianca

Answer 1

Hi Bianca,

if the EPD is in ILCD+EPD format, you can simply import it (file / import / file, then select the zip archive). You will get an EPD with results per life cycle stage, which you can use in your own models.

Best wishes,

Andreas

- be aware that published EPDs in "digital format" (i.e. ILCD+EPD) are often somehow funny, I assume since they are rather produced than used so far by those who create them

Comments

Hi, sadly it's not in ILCD+EPD format, I only have the numbers of the final impacts. Is there another way?
Thank you for your help!

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well if you have only a pdf e.g. you need to manually type the numbers into openLCA, but you can do this into an EPD; create an EPD and results for each stage in openLCA and add the numbers and units there. Or, use the EPD editor to upload an Excel and then create the ILCD+EPD format (which you can then import into openLCA again).

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Thank you. How could I type the numbers on OpenLCA? I tried creating a result and connecting it to a product system, but it didn't work.
Meanwhile i just downloaded EPD editor and I'm trying to use it

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check here for the result use in a product system: https://greendelta.github.io/openLCA2-manual/epds/life_cycle_models.html

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Thank you very much for your help!