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11. Open a flow by double clicking on it. Procedure 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 kilograms. Quantities can be thought of as the properties of a flow. Another quantity could be 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 financial information 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. 32
Procedure 07 Creating a plan and adding processes 07.01 Starting a project You are going to construct a model of a steel paper clip. 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. 33
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