EPD import from soda4LCA goes bootloop and nothing happened

Question

Hi,

I tried to import 2 EPD from soda4lca, one from dapcon which worked well (20 mins to import) and another from environdec and this one nothing happened, it shows "Imports datasets". After 1h i've to force close of Open LCA as it's impossible cancel the task.

Could you test this EPD of tell me how to import it with separates life cycle stages (A1, A2 ...)

Another question for the other succefully imported EPD, i've no result in A1-A3 as the EPD docuement has not the fusionned cell with A1-A3 data. Is it possible to copy and paste calculated values an modify the results in the dedicated area?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

When you import EPDs from a soda4LCA instance into a database that does not contain the EN 15804 indicators this can take very long. The reason for this is that it will then try to download them from the soda4LCA server. As an indicator can have characterization factors for thousands of flows it will check and also download all these flows if necessary. Also, not all soda4LCA instances contain the referenced indicators and flows which may result in broken EPDs then.

A method pack with the EN 15804 indicators is freely available on openLCA Nexus: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/EN15804%20add-on. First, import this method pack into the database, then download EPDs from soda4LCA into that database. It should then just take a few seconds to import an EPD.

Comments

Unfortunately, in the ecoinvent 3.9.1 EN 15804 add-on the indicators were not yet harmonized with the indicators used in the soda4LCA instances. This is why the import will not map them with the ones in the database.