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3.6 Starting a project You are going to construct a model of a steel paperclip. We already did some research on the paper clip, defined the goal and scope definition and qualitatively described the paper clip life cycle. Let´s convert all this information into a new GaBi project. 13. Click on „Projects‟ in the object hierarchy and start a new project by right clicking in the display area on the right and selecting „New‟. 14. Name this project „Life Cycle Steel Paper Clip.‟ 15. Click „Activate project.‟ Once the project is activated, all newly created processes, plans and flows will be saved under this project. This makes it much easier to find all the relevant information when you open the project in the future. It is a good idea to work with projects to keep your LCAs organised. 16. Close the project window. 3.7 Creating a plan The first thing you need to do then is to create a plan. On this plan you will model the life cycle of the paper clip. 17. To create a new plan you can click on „Plans‟ in the object hierarchy and then right click in the display area and select „New.‟ 32
A new plan will open in a new window. 18. Enter the name of the plan „Life Cycle Steel Paper Clip‟ and press enter. It is a great idea to save your plan regularly. 19. Save your plan now by clicking on the save icon in the plan window or by clicking „Object‟ and „Save.‟ 3.8 Adding a process You will now add process and flow information to the plan. GaBi databases contain predefined processes and flows and these can be easily added to the model. 3.9 Searching for processes In order to manufacture the paper clip you need steel wire. So, this will be the first process that you add to the plan. Adding processes to a plan is as easy as dragging and dropping. But first, you need to locate the processes. 33
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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
Page 13 and 14: Figure 3: Process Flow Diagram A sy
Page 15 and 16: Figure 5: Allocation Example Figure
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Page 27 and 28: 3 Procedure This chapter outlines a
Page 29 and 30: 3.4 GaBi theory GaBi calculates the
Page 31: You will now see the flow dialog bo
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 41 and 42: You have to specify where you would
Page 43 and 44: We determined that our paperclip ha
Page 45 and 46: process in the process chain. A con
Page 47 and 48: 3.22 Adding processes You will noti
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Page 51 and 52: 3.26 Linking processes Let´s compl
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Page 57 and 58: 3.30 Creating a balance If you have
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Page 61 and 62: 3.34 View option: Quantities The ta
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
Page 69 and 70: Appendix A Appendix A 3 Global Warm
Page 71 and 72: Appendix A Appendix A 6 Photochemic
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