Connectors appear in the process folder while importing databases into OpenLCA

Question

Hello, when importing databases downloaded from LCDN, such as EF_3_1_FEED and EF3_1_Chemicals_Part_1_public, into OpenLCA, many connectors appear in the process folder. What is the reason for this? What solutions are there? Will this affect LCA modeling?

Answer 1

Hello, indeed data from the LCDN node directly typically is imperfect and does not work nicely in LCA software and in openLCA. We have therefore made a curated version of all LCDN datasets, available from Nexus, and I would recommend using this. Since this curation was quite some effort, you need to purchase the DAL tool from Nexus for this. I hope this is acceptable.

Thank you,

Andreas

Comments

You only need to buy a tool, the database is free. The EF database on Nexus contains all data from all nodes (at time of preparation)