Jeroen Guinee and Bernhard Steubing
Intensive theory week (5 days; 9 to 5)
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Marlies A. Thomassen et al.
Animal Production Systems Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 338, 6700 AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Published: 01 May 2008
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Published: December 1997
Heinz Gabathuler
Session 3 Purpose This software session focuses on reproducing the results of an LCA paper on economic allocation, defining functional flows and identifying multi functional processes, with the software program CMLCA. In today’s exercises, you will learn:
to understand the main principles of economic allocation; how such analyses work in CMLCA software. You may perform the exercise alone or together with (a) colleague(s) in a virtual room, and again, you don’t have to hand in the results.
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment volume
Jeroen B. Guinde*, Reinout Heijungs and Gjah Huppes
2004
Avoided burden1
Most existing LCA databases today do not include multi-functional processes.
including ecoinvent MF is ‘solved’ by database developers by delivering only mono-functional datasets.
Mostly, practitioners cannot change this methodological decision anymore and often don’t realize that they are handling (‘accepting’) more MF issues than they realize.
Consequently, most software doesn’t include ways to address MF.
While it is known as one of the most determining factors of LCA results.
