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3.5 Flows Perhaps the most important information of GaBi is the flow information. Flows are characterized by mass, energy and costs with their respective values. For example, GaBi contains flow information for different raw materials, plastics, metals, emissions to air and water and many, many more. It is important to understand that flows contain information that tells GaBi to what extent one unit of this flow contributes to different environmental impact categories: these are called classification and characterisation factors. Let´s look at an example. 8. In the object hierarchy, click on the plus next to „Flows‟ and expand the flow group. You will notice that flows are grouped in folders according to whether or not they are resources, emissions or other types of flows. 9. Click to expand the „Resources‟ flow category and again to expand „Energy resources‟ and „Non renewable energy resources.‟ 10. Now click on the „Natural gas‟ folder. You can now see all the natural gas flows available in your database. There are several country specific flows for natural gas since the gas mixture and its properties vary from region to region. 11. Open a flow by double clicking on it. 30
You will now see the flow dialog box. In this window you can see, that the flow is automatically defined to be an input or output flow, or the flow type is undefined, when it can be both. This categorisation is done automatically based on the location of the flow within the GaBi database. The reference quantity of a flow is normally mass; this means that the reference unit of the flow is kg. Quantities can be thought of as the properties of a flow. Another quantity could be e.g. number of pieces, length, and volume and so on. In the quantity list you can see which quantities are associated with this flow. You can add additional quantities if you desire. Don’t worry; GaBi protects predefined objects to prevent you from disturbing this information. You will also notice the LCC tab. LCC stands for Life Cycle Costing and refers to a methodology that allows you to calculate the costs related to the life cycle of the system being studied. On the LCC tab financial quantities, such as the price can be defined for the flow. At this stage we do not need to go deeper into quantities. It is enough to understand that GaBi uses this information to calculate the potential environmental impact of the analyzed system. 12. You can close the „Natural gas‟ flow window. 31
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents 1 Introduction to
Page 5 and 6: Table of Figures Figure 1: Overview
Page 7 and 8: Purpose of this Handbook The purpos
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Page 11 and 12: 2.1.2 Scope The intended applicatio
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Page 27 and 28: 3 Procedure This chapter outlines a
Page 29: 3.4 GaBi theory GaBi calculates the
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Page 35 and 36: 3.10 Creating a new process You now
Page 37 and 38: In contrast, an LCI Result contains
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Page 51 and 52: 3.26 Linking processes Let´s compl
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Page 63 and 64: 3.36 Weak point analysis A very nic
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Page 67 and 68: 4 Literature GABI 2003 GaBi 4: Soft
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