Market information in life cycle assessment
Example:
Five fishery processes and their relative production of five fish products are
shown in the below table.
Relative amounts
of products
B:Cod-fishery C:Plaice-fishery
D:Lobster-fishery
E: Pelagic fishery
F:Industrial fishery
b: cod
1.0000
0.1779
0.6657
0.0040
0.0007
c: plaice
0.0361
1.0000
0.2163
0.0000
0.0005
d: lobster
0.0041
0.0000
1.0000
0.0000
0.0000
e: herring and
mackerel
0.1187
0.0000
0.0000
1.0000
0.0129
f: industrial fish
0.0299
0.0197
1.0478
0.3618
1.0000
The solutions are provided below for outputs of 1 unit of each of the five products (with
all other product outputs neutralised to 0):
Resulting
amounts of
processes
required for 1
additional unit
output of:
B:Cod-fishery C:Plaice-fishery
D:Lobster-fishery
E: Pelagic fishery
F:Industrial fishery
b: cod
1.0096
-0.0356
-0.0042
-0.1201
0.0183
c: plaice
-0.1796
1.0063
0.0007
0.0216
-0.0230
d: lobster
-0.6327
-0.1935
1.0026
0.0888
-1.0599
e: herring and
mackerel
-0.0038
0.0003
~0.0000
1.0052
-0.3636
f: industrial fish
-0.0005
-0.0004
~0.0000
-0.0129
1.0047
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