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Have you updated to SimaPro 10?

 

SimaPro 10 includes:

• Ecoinvent v3.10, allocation, cut-off by classification

• Ecoinvent v3.10 APOS and consequential can be downloaded separately

• Characterization factors have been added to applicable methods

• Additional updates/corrections

In case you missed the release webinar, the recording is now available on the SimaPro YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoW7YT12Xy0

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SimaPro 10 update details

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 Software release date: 30-11-2024
Deployment date: 25-11-2024

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Updates in SimaPro 10:

Updates to data libraries

• SimaPro 10 runs faster than previous versions of SimaPro

• SimaPro 10 includes Ecoinvent 3.10

• (the allocation cut-off by classification system model is included by default,
  other system models are available as additional downloadable libraries)

Updates to impact assessment methods

• Characterization factors have been added to all applicable methods for:

  • New and formerly missing occupation and transformation flows

  • New and formerly missing energy resources

  • New regionalized water flows

  • Formerly missing waterborne emissions of water to the oan sub-compartment

  • Formerly missing nitrogen and phosphorus substances

• Characterization factors have been updated in all applicable methods as follows:

  • Mappings of land use types from the original methods to SimaPro land use types have been revised with resulting changes in characterization factors for a few land use flows

  • Sub-regions that do not have a characterization factor in the original method have inherited the characterization factor of the main country (e.g. BR-GO has inherited the characterization factor of BR) instead of inheriting it from the global region

  • Characterization factors for energy resources have been aligned within an impact category on either higher or lower heating value

  • Characterization factors of a few nitrogen and phosphorus substances have been updated based on corrected stoichiometry calculations

• Additional updates/corrections have been implemented for all IPCC 2021 methods, all LC-IMPACT methods, Land use biodiversity (Chaudhary et al., 2015), all ReCiPe 2016 methods and BEES+