Written by Long Trail Sustainability, Senior Consultant, Shelly Severinghaus
Ecoinvent 3 is available in three system models in SimaPro and in market and transformation classifications. Depending on the goal and scope of your study, you may choose to use one system model versus another, and depending on your data availability you may use market or transformation data.
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Long Trail Sustainability Senior Consultant, Shelly Severinghaus, recently interviewed Robin Tindall, Environmental Stewardship Manager at Hypertherm, a New Hampshire based manufacturer of industrial cutting solutions, about why, how and when Hypertherm uses life cycle assessment.
The engineering mission at Hypertherm is to develop innovative technologies, products and solutions that provide superior value to our customers, our owners and our planet. To provide superior value to our planet, we know that we need to reduce the environmental impact of everything we do. To this end, we began working with Long Trail Sustainability in 2012 to conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs).
Life cycle assessment is a powerful methodology to evaluate the environmental impacts over the life of a product or service. An LCA can help answer many questions about where the hot spots are, how one material or product compares to another and where there are tradeoffs.
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Written by Long Trail Sustainability, Senior Consultant, Shelly Severinghaus
Ever wonder what electricity mixes exist in SimaPro? Or what electricity type you should choose in SimaPro? We hope to demystify electricity in SimaPro in this post.
The electricity processes in the SimaPro database contain the fuel types to produce the electricity, the transmission network, loss due to going between the electricity types (e.g. from high to medium voltage), and direct emissions. Electricity grid mixes can be found under the Energy > Electricity Country mix category, and electricity production by specific fuel types can be found under the Energy > Electricity by fuel category.
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Written by Long Trail Sustainability, Senior Consultant, Shelly Severinghaus and Consultant, Paula Bernstein
SimaPro is a powerful and comprehensive LCA software tool, and there are many features that you may only discover through time in the software or from fellow SimaPro users. We’re going to share some of our favorite, lesser known ones here, including copying a process from one project to another, the show as list feature, how to analyze a specific contribution and how to save as system-level data.
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