Brightway Recipes

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

This repository

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