Dealing with double-counting in tiered hybrid life-cycle inventories: a few comments |
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Authors: | Manfred Lenzen |
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Institution: | aCentre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia |
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Abstract: | Strømman et al. (2009) developed a method for dealing with double-counting in tiered hybrid LCA. Their algorithms identify overlaps of physical and monetary flows in the process and input–output parts of their hybrid data base, and then remove double-counted monetary flows in the input–output system using structural path analysis. Strømman's adjustment criterion is that the set of input–output paths to be removed should have the same monetary value as the process system flow that it overlaps with. I comment on Strømman's methods with respect to the accuracy of the correspondence between process and input–output systems. I argue that the set of double-counted paths to be removed from the input–output system is better selected on the basis of sector definitions than monetary value. |
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Keywords: | Hybrid life-cycle assessment Structural path analysis Input– output analysis |
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