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Procedure You can begin by selecting the country that your process refers to. You don´t have to do this, but it is helpful, if you have the information. In the source field you can select where this process data comes from. Leave this blank for now. You can also select the type of process. This requires a bit more explanation, so go ahead and select a country and name the process first. 08.02 5 Process types There are 5 types of processes in GaBi in accordance with the European Union’s ILCD system. Processes are categorised in order to better understand their roles within a product system. If you’d like to find out more about the ILCD system you can visit the ILCD website (http://lct.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index_jrc). 08.03 u-so A unit process single operation, represented by u-so, is often referred to as a unit process or gate to gate process. This process type contains only the data for one specific process step and no LCI (or Life cycle inventory) data. 08.04 u-bb A unit process black box, represented by u-bb, refers to a multifunctional process or process chain at a plant level. This type of process may represent a group of processes rather than a single process step. For example, the entire production chain of a computer keyboard key (excluding acquisition of raw materials) rather than the individual manufacturing and transport processes for that keyboard key. 08.05 agg In contrast, an LCI Result contains the entire life cycle data for part of or for the complete life cycle of a product system. This kind of dataset is often referred to as a cradle to gate or system process. 08.06 p-agg A partly terminated system, represented by p-agg, contains all LCI data for the process except for one or more product flows that require additional modelling. For example, the steel wire process is a partly terminated system because all of the inputs and emissions for the process are accounted for except for the type of steel being used to produce the steel wire. This process type is sometimes referred to as a partly linked process. 08.07 aps The last process type is called an avoided product system and is represented by aps. This can be a confusing process type because all input and output flows are set to negative values or all inputs are converted to outputs or vice versa. This kind of dataset is typically used when modelling allocation and shows the way that the use of certain materials and 38
Procedure energies is avoided by the product system under study. We won’t go any deeper into this process type. Take a guess what kind of process paper clip bending might be. Is it a unit process single operation, unit process black box, LCI result, partly terminated system or avoided product system? If you guessed unit process single operation you are correct. But why? Well, because this process represents only the process of bending the paper clip. It does not contain multiple process steps, does not contain life cycle data for a complete life cycle of a product system, or LCI data and does not include negative flows. 08.08 Specifying process type In GaBi you can specify the process type by selecting the appropriate type from the type drop down menu. 27. Since the Paper Clip Bending process is a unit process single operation, you can go ahead and select ‘u-so.’ 39
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