Carbon (or mass) balanced datasets

[xtanguay]

Project Author(s)

Xavier Tanguay

Short Description

Monte-Carlo sampling doesn't respect the laws of chemistry/physics, maybe we should enforce carbon balanced samples

Long Description

The CIRAIG (and some old SI from Lesage et al. 2018) contain documation on how to enforce a balance in water and land use flows for Monte-Carlo samples.

The goal of this project is to do the same for carbon emissions : the carbon emissions of burning certain fuels should not exceed the available carbon in the fuel itself (i.e. the stochastic datapackage correlating CO2 and natural gas in the carbon fiber production example).

This would require listing processes which are emitting carbon, listing the carbon content of the inputs and defining the ratios (from data already available in static ecoinvent datasets/the corresponding dataset metadata). Dataset information would be used to define what is an independent and dependent edge to balance the samples with the ratios.

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[michaelweinold]

Love the illustration, @xtanguay!

[xtanguay]

Thanks - I cheated, it's from a presentation I gave a month or 2 ago ;)