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The ecoinvent database system: a comprehensive web-based LCA database

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Rolf Frischknecht *
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Gerald Rebitzer
DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.05.002delete
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The paper describes the general structure of the ecoinvent database developed by the Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories. The database accommodates more than 2500 background processes often required in LCA case studies. Quality guidelines, established in order to ensure coherent data acquisition and reporting across the various institutes involved, are described. These include aspects such as the reporting of pollutants (e.g., heavy metals), or the nomenclature of processes and elementary flows. The data (exchange) format is also described. Processes are documented with the help of meta-information and flow data (including both unit process raw data and aggregated LCI results). The structure of the data format corresponds to the ISO/TS 14048 data documentation format. Data exchange between project partner institutes and between the database and its customers (database users) is based on XML-technology. Matrix inversion is used to calculate the cumulative LCA data using efficient algorithms and making use of the fact that LCA matrices are usually sparse. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
life cycle inventory (LCI)
ecoinvent
data format
matrix inversion
LCA database
EcoSpold
ISO/TS 14048
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Journal of Cleaner Production
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