New and exciting update: openLCA 2.0.3
We have just released a new update for openLCA. Now in version 2.0.3, openLCA has seen a big improvement on calculation speed thanks to the incorporation of the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL). MKL stands as an optimized and efficient library for mathematical and...
Carbon Minds Chemical Database – 2023 Update
Carbon Minds has updated their cm.chemicals database, now in version 2.00, in October this year, and is planing to release further updates every March, starting next year. You can read the latest documentation, and see more information about the database, including...
Latest updates to openLCA 2.0, where to find them and how give feedback
We have released an update of the openLCA2.0 version, v.2.0.1, with the following changes: fix on the Sankey diagram (loops), fixed a memory leak in the calculation (mainly affects the Monte Carlo simulation), “AND” combines words in the search bar, remove the process...
Circularity Package for openLCA, now available
Both Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool and Circular Economy as a concept work towards sustainable development, only that both approaches are currently done individually: one assessment doesn’t include the other. Circularity indicators can benefit hugely from a...
Uncertainty corrections for ecoinvent 3.9.1 & EN15804 add-on
The openLCA team has found that there are wrong values in v3.9.1 included for the uncertainty of exchanges (normal distribution, lognormal distribution, triangle distribution) which can lead to erroneous Monte-Carlo-Simulations. It does not influence your standard LCA...
EN15804 add-on to ecoinvent 3.9.1 is now available
Now available as an add-on for ecoinvent 3.9.1, the EN15804 add-on for ecoinvent is a database developed by GreenDelta for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) according to the EN15804 norm. The previous version of the database was also verified according to...