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Hi,

Unless I missed something, it seems that flow "Inherent LHV of declared product and packaging (non-renewable)" is not characterized on PENRM and PENRE indicators in ecoinvent 3.11 EN15804 library.

Best regards,

Jocelyn
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Very good fine Jocelyn, thank you for this. 

The following happened: The libraries are still quite new and this was the first libraries released. Also the "custom/manual" inventory indicators that modeler should use themselves in the own foreground was also something new. Because libraries are immutable background data sets, they currently only link the characterization factors for flows that are actually used inside any of the processes. That's why some flows like "Inherent LHV of declared product and packaging (non-renewable)" did not appear in the library anymore. These flows are used nowhere, which is intentionally of course. The reason why the characterization of  "Inherent LHV of declared product and packaging (renewable)" was still inside the library is because we had this example process in the database with a EUR-flat pallet that uses this foreground modeling flow.

Any calculation results of processes are not affected, since this only affects flows that are used nowhere in the library. This will be solved in the creation of libraries by our developers.

Until then, we will upload a new library data package to Nexus that simply has an example/dummy process inside the library with the inventory indicators included, so that the characterization factor for some of these unused flows do not disappear in the library.

Best wishes,

Conrad

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Ok clear, thank you Conrad!
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