GaBi Paper Clip Tutorial - GaBi Software
GaBi Paper Clip Tutorial - GaBi Software
GaBi Paper Clip Tutorial - GaBi Software
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Table of Contents<br />
1 Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment ............................................................. 8<br />
1.1 What is LCA? ................................................................................................... 8<br />
1.1.1 Industry ............................................................................................................ 9<br />
1.1.2 Government ..................................................................................................... 9<br />
1.1.3 Universities ...................................................................................................... 9<br />
1.2 How is an LCA created? .................................................................................. 9<br />
1.3 <strong>GaBi</strong> overview ................................................................................................. 9<br />
2 Conducting Life Cycle Assessments .............................................................. 10<br />
2.1 Goal and Scope Definition ............................................................................. 10<br />
2.1.1 Goal ............................................................................................................... 10<br />
2.1.2 Scope ............................................................................................................ 11<br />
2.2 Life Cycle Inventory ....................................................................................... 16<br />
2.2.1 General .......................................................................................................... 16<br />
2.2.2 Data Collection - Classifications..................................................................... 17<br />
2.2.3 Calculation of the LCI .................................................................................... 18<br />
2.3 Life Cycle Impact Assessment ....................................................................... 18<br />
2.3.1 Impact Assessment Methods ......................................................................... 19<br />
2.3.2 Selection of Impact Categories ...................................................................... 21<br />
2.3.3 Classification ................................................................................................. 21<br />
2.3.4 Characterization ............................................................................................ 21<br />
2.3.5 Optional elements of an LCA ......................................................................... 22<br />
2.4 Interpretation ................................................................................................. 24<br />
2.4.1 Identification of significant issues ................................................................... 24<br />
2.4.2 Evaluation ...................................................................................................... 24<br />
2.4.3 Conclusions, recommendations and reporting ............................................... 25<br />
2.4.4 Report............................................................................................................ 25<br />
2.4.5 Critical Review ............................................................................................... 26<br />
3 Procedure ...................................................................................................... 27<br />
3.1 Open <strong>GaBi</strong> ..................................................................................................... 27<br />
3.2 Connecting a DB ........................................................................................... 27<br />
3.3 Activating a DB .............................................................................................. 28<br />
3.4 <strong>GaBi</strong> theory ................................................................................................... 29<br />
3.5 Flows ............................................................................................................. 30<br />
3.6 Starting a project ........................................................................................... 32<br />
3.7 Creating a plan .............................................................................................. 32<br />
3.8 Adding a process ........................................................................................... 33<br />
3.9 Searching for processes ................................................................................ 33<br />
3.10 Creating a new process ................................................................................. 35<br />
3.11 Process types ................................................................................................ 36<br />
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