by Julia Cilleruelo | Oct 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
We have just released a new update for openLCA. Now in version 2.0.3, openLCA has seen a big improvement on calculation speed thanks to the incorporation of the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL). MKL stands as an optimized and efficient library for mathematical and... by Julia Cilleruelo | Oct 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Carbon Minds has updated their cm.chemicals database, now in version 2.00, in October this year, and is planing to release further updates every March, starting next year. You can read the latest documentation, and see more information about the database, including... by Julia Cilleruelo | Aug 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
We have released an update of the openLCA2.0 version, v.2.0.1, with the following changes: fix on the Sankey diagram (loops), fixed a memory leak in the calculation (mainly affects the Monte Carlo simulation), “AND” combines words in the search bar, remove the process... by Julia Cilleruelo | Jul 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Both Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool and Circular Economy as a concept work towards sustainable development, only that both approaches are currently done individually: one assessment doesn’t include the other. Circularity indicators can benefit hugely from a... by Julia Cilleruelo | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
The openLCA team has found that there are wrong values in v3.9.1 included for the uncertainty of exchanges (normal distribution, lognormal distribution, triangle distribution) which can lead to erroneous Monte-Carlo-Simulations. It does not influence your standard LCA... by Julia Cilleruelo | Jun 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Now available as an add-on for ecoinvent 3.9.1, the EN15804 add-on for ecoinvent is a database developed by GreenDelta for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) according to the EN15804 norm. The previous version of the database was also verified according to... by Julia Cilleruelo | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the last couple of years, with the increasing uptake of openLCA as a software for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), we have seen a great increase also in the demand for our trainings. We have reached a point where we would like to offer others the possibility to give... by Julia Cilleruelo | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
We have updated our software to version 2.0! This means that openLCA now runs in v2.0 and the LCA Collaboration Server too. If you want to continue using openLCA v1.11 you will still have to continue using the LCA Collaboration Server v1.3. The new LCA Collaboration... by Julia Cilleruelo | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
We’re excited to announce the release of openLCA 2.0! After a considerable development period, we have now made it available for use. While the core workflow remains unchanged, we have introduced new features to enhance the modelling experience and make it more... by Julia Cilleruelo | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
We have released a new version of the EN15804 add-on for ecoinvent 3.8, available in Nexus: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/EN15804%20add-on. The new version has different ref ids than the system process version and therefore both the LCI and unit version of the...