GaBi Paper Clip Tutorial - GaBi Software

Table of Contents
1 Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment ............................................................. 9
1.1 What is LCA? ................................................................................................... 9
1.1.1 Industry .......................................................................................................... 10
1.1.2 Government ................................................................................................... 10
1.1.3 Universities .................................................................................................... 10
1.2 How is an LCA created? ................................................................................ 10
1.3 GaBi overview ............................................................................................... 10
2 Conducting Life Cycle Assessments .............................................................. 11
2.1 Goal and Scope Definition ............................................................................. 11
2.1.1 Goal ............................................................................................................... 11
2.1.2 Scope ............................................................................................................ 12
2.2 Life Cycle Inventory ....................................................................................... 17
2.2.1 General .......................................................................................................... 17
2.2.2 Data Collection - Classifications..................................................................... 18
2.2.3 Calculation of the LCI .................................................................................... 19
2.3 Life Cycle Impact Assessment ....................................................................... 19
2.3.1 Impact Assessment Methods ......................................................................... 20
2.3.2 Selection of Impact Categories ...................................................................... 22
2.3.3 Classification ................................................................................................. 22
2.3.4 Characterization ............................................................................................ 22
2.3.5 Optional elements of an LCA ......................................................................... 23
2.4 Interpretation ................................................................................................. 25
2.4.1 Identification of significant issues ................................................................... 25
2.4.2 Evaluation ...................................................................................................... 25
2.4.3 Conclusions, recommendations and reporting ............................................... 26
2.4.4 Report............................................................................................................ 26
2.4.5 Critical Review ............................................................................................... 27
3 Procedure ...................................................................................................... 28
3.1 Open GaBi ..................................................................................................... 28
3.2 Connecting a DB ........................................................................................... 28
3.3 Activating a DB .............................................................................................. 29
3.4 GaBi theory ................................................................................................... 30
3.5 Flows ............................................................................................................. 31
3.6 Starting a project ........................................................................................... 33
3.7 Creating a plan .............................................................................................. 33
3.8 Adding a process ........................................................................................... 34
3.9 Searching for processes ................................................................................ 34
3.10 Creating a new process ................................................................................. 36
3.11 Process types ................................................................................................ 37
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