Air.e LCA v3.21: Integration of Ecoinvent 3.12 and New Advanced Features
Version 3.21 of Air.e LCA is now available, an update that incorporates Ecoinvent 3.12 and adds significant improvements in performance, usability, and reporting capabilities.
Greater Speed, Greater Precision, and New Search Engine
Air.e LCA has established itself as one of the fastest LCA software solutions on the market, with real-time calculations even in complex projects. This new version integrates an optimized search engine that significantly increases speed when navigating the database, especially when working with Ecoinvent:
- Virtually instantaneous results, even in searches with thousands of entries.
- Simultaneous search by names, synonyms, and tags, which streamlines the location of the appropriate dataset.
- Display of images and metadata in those Ecoinvent datasets that include them.
New Reporting Capabilities: Complete Inventories and Data Ready for Dashboard Creation
Version 3.21 significantly expands export possibilities. With the “Detail in CSV” function, it is now possible to generate—with a single click—a file that includes:
- Detailed results for each project
- Activity data for each entry
- Emission factors and datasets used
- Allocations, stages, and sections
- Names, descriptions, and complete metadata
This format not only facilitates the preparation of Inventory Reports for Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and external verification processes, but also provides a dataset that is already clean, structured, and ready to integrate directly into tools such as Excel, Power BI, or Google Looker Studio.
This makes it much simpler and faster to build customized dashboards for project monitoring and evaluation, without the need for intermediate processing: Air.e prepares the dataset; the analysis tool does the rest.
Key Features of Ecoinvent 3.12
The new version of Ecoinvent significantly expands and updates its coverage, providing greater precision and new datasets for multiple sectors:
- Agriculture: expansion and improvement of crops
- Electronics and batteries: new processes and updates
- Plastics and chemicals: expansion of products and regions
- Electricity: update of electricity mixes
- Forestry: greater geographical coverage and harmonization of nomenclatures
- Fuels: revision of crude oil production data
- Metals: notable updates in steel, aluminum, and zinc
- Textiles: new processes for hemp fiber
- Waste management: complete revision and methodological improvements
- Transport: corrections in rail, maritime, and road
You can see more details on the Ecoinvent website here.
Additionally, Air.e LCA includes the “Update Ecoinvent” function, which allows migration of any project from a previous version to a newer one: the software automatically replaces all datasets and recalculates the results in seconds, without modifying the original project.
If you are not yet familiar with Air.e LCA and would like to try it, please do not hesitate to request a demonstration.
