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Table of Contents 1 Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment ............................................................. 9 1.1 What is LCA? ................................................................................................... 9 1.1.1 Industry .......................................................................................................... 10 1.1.2 Government ................................................................................................... 10 1.1.3 Universities .................................................................................................... 10 1.2 How is an LCA created? ................................................................................ 10 1.3 GaBi overview ............................................................................................... 10 2 Conducting Life Cycle Assessments .............................................................. 11 2.1 Goal and Scope Definition ............................................................................. 11 2.1.1 Goal ............................................................................................................... 11 2.1.2 Scope ............................................................................................................ 12 2.2 Life Cycle Inventory ....................................................................................... 17 2.2.1 General .......................................................................................................... 17 2.2.2 Data Collection - Classifications..................................................................... 18 2.2.3 Calculation of the LCI .................................................................................... 19 2.3 Life Cycle Impact Assessment ....................................................................... 19 2.3.1 Impact Assessment Methods ......................................................................... 20 2.3.2 Selection of Impact Categories ...................................................................... 22 2.3.3 Classification ................................................................................................. 22 2.3.4 Characterization ............................................................................................ 22 2.3.5 Optional elements of an LCA ......................................................................... 23 2.4 Interpretation ................................................................................................. 25 2.4.1 Identification of significant issues ................................................................... 25 2.4.2 Evaluation ...................................................................................................... 25 2.4.3 Conclusions, recommendations and reporting ............................................... 26 2.4.4 Report............................................................................................................ 26 2.4.5 Critical Review ............................................................................................... 27 3 Procedure ...................................................................................................... 28 3.1 Open GaBi ..................................................................................................... 28 3.2 Connecting a DB ........................................................................................... 28 3.3 Activating a DB .............................................................................................. 29 3.4 GaBi theory ................................................................................................... 30 3.5 Flows ............................................................................................................. 31 3.6 Starting a project ........................................................................................... 33 3.7 Creating a plan .............................................................................................. 33 3.8 Adding a process ........................................................................................... 34 3.9 Searching for processes ................................................................................ 34 3.10 Creating a new process ................................................................................. 36 3.11 Process types ................................................................................................ 37 3
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Page 29 and 30: If so, you can skip this step. Proc
Page 31 and 32: 3.5 Flows Procedure Perhaps the mos
Page 33 and 34: 3.6 Starting a project Procedure Yo
Page 35 and 36: There are 2 ways to do this in GaBi
Page 37 and 38: Procedure A window opens where you
Page 39 and 40: 3.13 Parameters Procedure Here you
Page 41 and 42: Procedure When you select a flow fr
Page 43 and 44: Procedure 38. Type in the column
Page 45 and 46: Procedure We do this to specify the
Page 47 and 48: Procedure 49. Double click on the
Page 49 and 50: Procedure You can also use the auto
Page 51 and 52: 3.25 Resizing process boxes Procedu
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Procedure 62. Connect the steel wir
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3.27 Adding a plan Procedure We wil
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3.29 Adding comments Procedure You
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Procedure You can drill down into t
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Procedure 97. Double click on the
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Procedure As you see, only the flow
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Procedure By right clicking on a co
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3.39 Exporting results Procedure If
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Appendix A Appendix A Description o
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The acidification potential is give
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Appendix A effects are changes in g
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