Providing reliable and up-to-date Life Cycle Inventory Analysis (LCI)
Analysis, documentation and calculation of background data
ESU-services has more than 25 years experience in life cycle inventory analysis and transparent documentation. About 900 out of 4000 unit process data sets have been provided for the first ecoinvent database. The project database of ESU services covers several thousands of further of life cycle inventories in the EcoSpold or SimaPro format. The data can be imported to different LCA software such as SimaPro, Gabi, openLCA, etc.
When desired, we collect and analyse detailed LCI-data for your studies. More detailed information about contents and prices of data sets for sale can be found at our database description.
Such extensively documented information is not always required. We therefore also sell emission factors and CO2 intensities for the simple calculation of a CO2 footprint, for example. You can choose from a list of available data sets and then receive these factors as an Excel table to carry out your own calculations.
We also distribute databases from partners such as CarbonMinds or Social Hotspot Database to support our customers. We also make information on environmental parameters from EPDs (Environmental Product Declarations) available electronically for SimaPro. Further, we elaborated a range of further and updated datasets, which can be downloaded free of charge. Furthermore, you can find some abstracts of working examples.
Leading projects on database development and LCA research
25 years experience in LCI modelling for oil and gas extraction: developments and challenges in updating LCI data
Presentation of Niels Jungbluth during the DF 84 – LCA development – Did we forget about data? Challenges and needs.
Sectors and themes covered in LCI’s documented by ESU-services
- ecoinvent data v2.0 (database development, energy systems and other background data)
- ecoinvent data v2.2+ available for free (e.g. biofuels)
- ecoinvent database v3.8 and later (oil and gas)
- CarbonMinds database (oil and gas)
- Energy and electricity
- Nourishment & food consumption
- Beverages
- Agricultural products
- Biofuels, Biomaterials and biomass resources
- Photovoltaics
- Chemicals
- Semiconductor Metals
- Gold & Silver
- Holidays (accommodation, activities (skiing, etc), cruises)
