Efficient Result Analysis Help

Question

Hey,
I have a product system with multiple steps (processes), is there an automated way through which I can generate bar graphs from the software, to show impact of each process in graph form?

I have tried exporting the results of the product system in excel but it's tedious and a lot of data cleanup

Answer 1

Hello Yarmiah Bukhari,

thank you for your question. Automating impact calculations and writing the results to excel is very straight forward with openLCA, if you make use of the IPC server in openLCA and our Python libraries olca-ipc (https://pypi.org/project/olca-ipc/) and olca-schema (https://pypi.org/project/olca-schema/). If you combine these with Excel-specific Python libraries such as openpyxl, you can streamline and automate the process of running an impact calculation and the subsequent transfer to an Excel file for further data processing such as the generation of graphs. Alternatively, you could use the Python library Matplotlib to directly produce graphs from the impact calculation results and completely bypass having to use Excel this way.

Here are a few more resources regarding the olca-schema and the olca-api:

https://greendelta.github.io/olca-schema/

https://greendelta.github.io/openLCA-ApiDoc/

I hope this helped.

Best wishes,

Raphael