datatypes

Industrial Ecology Freiburg

Research group at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources

Table contents of Categories

id	name	description
1	Flow	Objects flowing between processes
2	Stock	Objects residing as stocks in processes
3	Material/Product property	Intensive object properties
4	Process coefficient, process parameter, intensive quantity	Intensive process properties
5	Extensive process property	Extensive process properties such as capacity
6	General ratio	Ratios between stocks and flows
7	Correspondence	Correspondence between two classifications

Table contents of Types

id	name	description	reference_data_category	symbol
1	Flow		1	F
2	Stock	stocks of all kind	2	S
3	In-use stock	in-use stocks only	2	IUS
4	Population	population figures only	2	P
5	Lifetime	typically in use phase, or residence time in landfill etc.	3	LT
6	Material composition	m.c. of products, alloys, waste/scrap, etc.	3	MC
7	Share	share (in %) of something	3	SHA
8	Price	price data	3	PR
9	Yield coefficient	material or energy yield of processes	4	PY
10	Process extension	Extension per output	4	PE
11	Process capacity	capacity of processes	5	CAP
12	Intensity of use of products	service (physical or immaterial) extracted from products	3	IUP
13	Specific energy consumption of products	energy per unit of use of products, e.g., MJ/km of vehicle driven	3	EIP
14	Process costs	Costs per capacity	4	PC
15	Per capita stock	stock per person, e.g., cars per capita	6	PCS
16	Per capita flows	flows per persion, e.g., GDP per capita	6	PCF
17	Material substitution coefficient	Amount of material 1 substituted by amount of material 2.	6	MSC
18	Process inventory	flows entering and leaving process, for LCI datasets	1	PI
19	Unit process inventory	flows entering and leaving process, normalized, for LCI datasets	4	UPI
20	Births_deaths	flows of people being born and dying	1	BD
21	Misc_intensive	miscellaneous intensive properties, e.g., those used in ecoinvent	6	MIP
22	Activity parameters	parameters, e.g., those used in ecoinvent	4	PAR
23	Transfer coefficients	transfer coefficients, e.g., those used in ecoinvent	6	TC
24	Criticality	criticality indicators	6	CR
25	Impact indicators	impact indicators, e.g., from LC impact assessment	6	IMI
26	Flow_prices	price information for flows (not products: 3_PR)	6	FPR
27	correspondence_table	Correspondence between two classifications	7	CT
28	Characterisation factor	Environmental or social midpoint or endpoint indicator per unit of substance listed in life cycle inventory	3	CF
29	Stock change	change in stock (net addition, withdrawal, disposal, …)	2	DS
30	Urban metabolism indicators	various indicators of urban metabolism, extensive, intensive.	6	URB

Table contents of Layers

id	name	description
1	Mass
2	Mass ratio
3	Monetary
4	Value per mass
5	Unit
6	Population
7	Lifetime
8	Power generation capacity
9	Energy per mass of output
10	Product per capita
11	Service per unit
12	Mass per area
13	Mass per volume
14	Service
15	Mass per unit
16	Parameters of pdf of product discard
17	Misc. physical units
18	Misc. units
19	Dry mass	Dry mass only
20	Wet mass	Wet mass (water content included)
21	Lower heating value	Net Calorific Value (NCV)
22	Higher heating value	Gross Calorific Value (GCV)
23	monetary (basic prices)	monetary value as basic price
24	monetary (purchaser prices)	monetary value as purchaser price
25	monetary (constant prices)	monetary value as constant price
26	Correspondence	Correspondence between two classifications
27	Area	area measure of stocks or flows of products like buildings
28	Misc_share	share of a quantity in another total quantity, miscellaneous units
29	Energy	Energy layer
30	Radioactivity	activity of a quantity of radioactive material