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Geographic_Variance_HLCA

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Repo to build hybrid lca database with ecoinvent en exiobase, including geographic and price variance. Relevant Publication: Accepted at Journal of Industrial Ecology

The repository builds on a fork of the package [pylcaio[(https://github.com/MaximeAgez/pylcaio/tree/master). The relevant fork is found here. Otherwise it requires:

File description:

  • hybrid_lcaio.py: The core of this package, a class that deals with the building of the hybrid model and (re-) calculating of the the Cut-off matrix. No need to use directly.
  • run_hybrid_MC.py: Script to run a MC simulation to estimate the gepographic and price variance. Can be run in stand alone mode, but is called from the notebook run_hybrid_montecarlo.ipynb
  • match_BACI_price_data_to_ecoinvent.py: Script to match the BACI price daata to econivent processes. (price data for ecoinvent 3.5 and BACI for the year 2012 can be found here DOI).
  • RunPylcio.ipynb: Notebook to generate a pylcaio object (used for all the concordances).
  • run_hybrid_montecarlo.ipynb: Notebook to run a MC simulation to estimate the gepographic and price variance
  • Analyse_MC)results.ipynb: A working notebook that can be used to analyse the MC simulation data and produce plot. WARNING: not a cleaned notebook, use with care!!!

Mapping files between ecoinvent processes (v3.5 and v3.8) and BACI for products (HS12 classification) and regional mappings.

  • eco_baci_country_mapping.xlsx : excel file mapping the regions in ecoinvent to country codes
  • ecoinvent35-baci_region_mapping.json : json file mapping the activity_product uuids to a list of country codes
  • ecoinvent35-HS12_mapping.json : json file mapping the activity_product uuids to a list of HS12 commodity codes
  • ecoinvent38-baci_region_mapping.json : json file mapping the activity_product uuids to a list of country codes
  • ecoinvent38-HS12_mapping.json : json file mapping the activity_product uuids to a list of HS12 commodity codes