by Pia Lemberger | Jan 11, 2021 | Databases
The updated ecoinvent 3.7.1 database is now available on openLCA Nexus. This update was needed as the database provider had noticed an issue related to the iron sinter production dataset which included an error in the order of magnitude of the estimated emissions for... by Pia Lemberger | Dec 18, 2020 | Databases
ecoinvent has informed us that an issue has been identified in version 3.7 of the ecoinvent database. Specifically, the iron sinter production dataset includes an error in the order of magnitude of the estimated emissions for dioxins and particulate matter (PM)... by Pia Lemberger | Oct 13, 2020 | Databases
The latest version of the ecoinvent database, version 3.7, released on September 17th, 2020, features more than 900 new datasets, among them 100 new products, and 1000 updated datasets. Few of the major updates and additions are listed below: New and updated datasets... by openLCA.org | Oct 13, 2020 | Databases
If you are interested in the topics related to urban mobility, comparison of different scooters (electric and motor scooters), or if you want to have an overview about how to perform a Life Cycle Assessment using the software openLCA and ecoinvent 3.6 database, useful... by openLCA.org | Aug 25, 2020 | Databases
If you’re a food researcher in France or an LCA researcher or someone with an inclination towards studying environmental impacts due to agriculture and food industry, the ‘Agribalyse on openLCA’ webinar, aired live on YouTube on 31st of July, 2020 and currently... 
by Pia Lemberger | Jun 10, 2020 | openLCA releases, Software
Since the release of openLCA v 1.10, a Flow Mapping feature is available in openLCA – some users might have observed it already. In collaboration with ERG and U.S. EPA, we have now released a document with detailed instructions which explain how to use this feature.... by Salwa Burhan | May 14, 2020 | Databases
The latest update resolves the issues related to negative uncertainty values for the waste flows, which was causing negative results during Monte Carlo simulations. The updated databases can be downloaded from nexus:... by Pia Lemberger | May 13, 2020 | Databases
In February 2020, Sphera published the SP40 version of the GaBi databases 2020. We have now fully modified the databases for use in openLCA, including the updates from Sphera and some extra modifications. Over 12.700 LCI datasets have been upgraded in the latest... by Pia Lemberger | Feb 10, 2020 | Databases
As you see in the figure below, we updated datasets for ecoinvent 3.6. in openLCA, particularly all LCI databases and all regionalised databases. They are now available on Nexus. For the LCI databases, we changed the reference ID (UUID) for the processes, in... by Pia Lemberger | Jan 24, 2020 | openLCA collaboration server
Here we go: We have now released version 1.2.0 of the collaboration server, which is available for download via https://www.openlca.org/download/. We mainly worked on minor changes of the user interface and fixed some bugs. If you want to upgrade the collaboration...