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Life cycle inventory modelling in the Swiss national database ECOINVENT 2000

dc.contributor.authorFrischknecht, Rolf
dc.contributor.editorHilty, Lorenz M.
dc.contributor.editorGilgen, Paul W.
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-16T09:32:10Z
dc.date.available2019-09-16T09:32:10Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractIn late 2000 the project ECOINVENT 2000 has officially been launched. Several Swiss federal agencies and nine institutes of the ETH domain agreed on a joint effort to harmonise and update life cycle inventory (LCI) data for its use in life cycle assessment (LCA). Life cycle assessment is a technique for assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product from resource extraction to final disposal . For that purpose a central database will be developed building on past experiences witha large network-based LCI database developed at ETH Zürich. The database will comprise LCI data from the energy, transport, building materials, chemicals, paper and pulp, waste treatment and agricultural sector. The content of the database will be made publicly available via the web. Two technical aspects are highlighted, namely the data exchange and the computation of LCA results. XML-technology is applied for the data exchange between the institutes and between them and the central database. This allows for a flexible solution and gives the opportunity to consider the particularities of different LCA software products on the market. 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.de
dc.description.urihttp://enviroinfo.eu/sites/default/files/pdfs/vol104/0699.pdfde
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26780
dc.publisherMetropolis
dc.relation.ispartofSustainability in the Information Society
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEnviroInfo
dc.titleLife cycle inventory modelling in the Swiss national database ECOINVENT 2000de
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.publisherPlaceMarburg
gi.conference.date2001
gi.conference.locationZürich
gi.conference.sessiontitleIntegrating Environmental Information

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