What I have done is imported all three system models' database into the same ''folder'' in openLCA, but I make sure to only select the consequential providers for the flows I use as inventories in the input & output table. One of the possible reasons is the incorrect way of importing database into openLCA. Therefore, it is not correct that I have APOS flows in my linking.
It has been confirmed by ecoinvent that if I choose the consequential system model, then it should only have consequential datasets in the linking. I found that there are unexpected links of APOS flows in my product system, which is another system model. Then, I created the product system ( Prefer default providers Preferred process type: System process) and calculated the LCIA (IPCC 2013 GWP 100a). The system model I chose is 'Consequential, long term', so I made sure that the flows I inserted in the input/output table are all consequential providers.
I am using ecoinvent database 3.7.1 in openLCA 1.10.3. Not at all.I have a problem with ecoinvent in openLCA would like to ask for your kind help. I just want to emphasize that my intention was not to put Sphera or anybody in a “bad corner” (since I also received some feedback in this direction). I only hope that for you as users of openLCA, this does not cause too many inconveniences, and with my colleagues at GreenDelta, I remain of course available for any feedback and questions.Īddition, December 2020: Thank you all for the enormous and positive feedback. And it definitely triggers our own database development. But, when I was made aware of this decision, which resulted in an ordinary cancelation of our GaBi reseller agreement, I must say I agreed, also because it allows us now to act somehow cleaner, and focus on distributing databases that better fit to our own standards. Overall, as said, this is a decision of the new thinkstep owners, and is not linked to our company, openLCA, or me, in any way. Although we do not get any compensation for this work from thinkstep (since we are not allowed to sell the databases) I think we owe this to our users.
#Openlca link license#
We will obtain new versions of the GaBi databases from thinkstep / Sphera, and will make these available on Nexus, as usual, for users with a valid GaBi license and maintenance from us, so up to five years.
The modeling approach and also the flows and LCIA methods are so different from other databases, that we provided the latest releases fully original in GaBi nomenclature, which contradicts the initial “bridging” idea and motivation obviously.
#Openlca link software#
For technical reasons, we received GaBi database updates only several months after they were available for GaBi software users, our latest version now is the version from February this year. However, it was also always a bit difficult. I regret this decision to some extent GaBi databases contain processes for some interesting products that you don´t find in other databases, and further, I initiated the connection to GaBi databases about 10 years ago also with the idea to bridge different communities and “silos” that we had then and still have now in the LCA world. Sphera stresses that it is not linked to us especially as a company. This is due to a decision from the Sphera company, new owner of thinkstep, who do not foresee selling databases to resellers (as we are). Since October 1 2020, we are not selling GaBi databases on Nexus any more.
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