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Procedure
Next to this you find the option “Just elementary flows”. This option allows you to filter out
elementary flows. Here you see the significance of specifying if a flow is elementary or
non-elementary.
93. Deactivate the ‘Just elementary flows’ option to show the ‘Valuable
substances,’ ‘Production residues in life cycle’ and ‘Deposited goods’
categories.
If you leave this option activated, only elementary flows will be shown in the balance
window.
94. Activate the ‘separate IO tables’ view and
95. Activate the ‘Just elementary flows’ option.
In the table you see the total values for each flow category. At the moment you see the
flow grouping ´Resources´ on the input side and Resources, Emissions to air, fresh water,
sea water and industrial soil on the output side. These are the flows that enter our system
from nature and exit our system back to nature.
3.33 Navigating through the balance window
By double clicking on the resources row you can expand the list items until all flows
appear, by double clicking on subcategories of flows you can expand them too. In fact by
double clicking on any bold row you can expand or collapse the items contained within
this category. Let us look at the crude oil consumption:
96. Double click on ‘Flows’ on the input side to expand/collapse them until you have
located the bold ‘crude oil (resource)’ row.
Now you can see the mass of the aggregated crude oil consumption of your system.
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