What's new in SimaPro version 9.6?
Your SimaPro experience is improving! Each new release comes with a wealth of updated data libraries and impact assessment methods. With the most recent data libraries and new and updated methods, you will be ready for the latest LCA challenges.
Changes to data libraries
- ecoinvent 3.10, allocation, cut-off by classification (other system models available as additional libraries)
Changes to impact assessment methods
- Characterization factors have been added to all (applicable) methods for:
- - New and formerly missing occupation and transformation flows
- - New and formerly missing energy resources
- - New regionalized water flows
- Formerly missing waterborne emissions of water to the oan sub-compartment
- - Formerly missing nitrogen and phosphorus substances
- Characterization factors have been updated in all (applicable) methods as follows:
- - Mappings of land use types from the original methods to SimaPro land use types have been revised with resulting changes in characterization factors for a few land use flows
- - Sub-regions that don’t have a characterization factor in the original method have inherited the characterization factor of the main country (e.g. BR-GO has inherited the characterization factor of BR) instead of inheriting it from the global region
- - Characterization factors for energy resources have been aligned within an impact category on either higher or lower heating value
- - Characterization factors of a few nitrogen and phosphorus substances have been updated based on corrected stoichiometry calculations
- Additional updates/corrections have been implemented for all IPCC 2021 methods, all LC-IMPACT methods, Land use biodiversity (Chaudhary et al., 2015), all ReCiPe 2016 methods and BEES+
Would you like to install or update to SimaPro 9.6? Please check our installation & update instructions.