To facilitate the upscaling of LCA studies, so-called Product Category Template (PCT) data sets are developed and the photovoltaics (PV) product group is taken as an applicable example. We will present the contents and the workflows for PCTs, which can simplify life cycle modeling and increase the comparability and compliance of its results. The open-source file of only a few megabytes in size...
Using primary data for life cycle assessments is the common and preferred way to conduct life cycle assessments. But collecting data is time consuming, can be incomplete and only reflects a static and specific result. In order to generate reliable inventory data, the additional use of external software, like flowsheet simulation is necessary. Flowsheet simulation software is based on...
This work develops an end-to-end, low-code workflow that automatically converts heterogeneous documents—reports, theses and open-data PDFs—into high-quality, machine-readable Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) inventories. Built on the open-source orchestrator n8n, the pipeline (i) prunes non-informative pages with custom Python APIs, (ii) extracts text while preserving tables through the free...
