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Brightway Recipes

Calculation recipes for brightway2. Instructions to becoming an LCA gourmet.

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This repository is meant to be a community platform for learning brightway2. It collects tutorials and calculation recipes for beginners and advanced users.

Table of Contents

  • 0_first_project: setup first brightway project, import ecoinvent
  • 1_first_LCA: conduct multi-method, static LCA of one ecoinvent activity
  • 2_database_manipulation: manipulate ecoinvent database such that all medium voltage electricity markets are replaced by wind electricity production
  • 3_plotting: calculate LCIA scores for multiple activities and methods and plot the result using pandas
  • 4_sankey: do contribution analysis for an activity and draw a sankey diagram
  • 5_exiobase: import the Exiobase hybrid input-output database into Brightway 2.5 and use it

External content

  • official brightway notebooks A collection of Jupyter notebooks demonstrating how to use brightway2 from basic data manipulation to advanced LCIA analysis
  • brightway seminar 2017 A good guide for starters
  • Brightway for Beginners course Contains materials used in a 8-hour course to learn Brightway2, developed by Massimo Pizzol at Aalborg University
  • maxkolowski's introduction to Brightway notebook A notebook for beginners designed to get you started (creating a project, setting up database(s) and simple foreground systems, performing impact assessments, analysing results, performing Monte Carlo simulations)
  • LCA_WIND_DK very advanced use of brightway to construct "technologically, temporally and geographically-sensitive life cycle inventories" of every wind turbine in Denmark

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