https://github.com/brightway-lca/bw_timex

Time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment
https://github.com/brightway-lca/bw_timex

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Time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brightway-lca/bw_timex
• Owner: brightway-lca
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2023-10-10T18:34:20.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-28T15:57:35.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T05:55:13.182Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Jupyter Notebook
• Homepage: https://docs.brightway.dev/projects/bw-timex
• Size: 39.4 MB
• Stars: 30
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 18
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGES.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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This is a python package for [time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment](https://docs.brightway.dev/projects/bw-timex/en/latest/content/theory.html#terminology) that helps you assess the environmental impacts of products and processes over time. `bw_timex` builds on top of the [Brightway LCA framework](https://docs.brightway.dev/en/latest).

## ✨ Features

This package enables you to account for:

- **Timing of processes** throughout the supply chain (e.g., end-of-life treatment occurs 20 years after construction)

- **Variable** and/or **evolving** supply chains & technologies (e.g., increasing shares of renewable electricity in the future)

- **Timing of emissions** (by applying dynamic characterization functions)

You can define temporal distributions for process and emission exchanges, which are then *automatically* propagated through the supply chain and mapped to corresponding time-explicit databases. The resulting time-explicit LCI reflects the current technology status within the production system at the actual time of each process. Also, `bw_timex` keeps track of the timing of emissions which means that you can apply [dynamic characterization functions](https://github.com/brightway-lca/dynamic_characterization).

## 💡 Use Cases

`bw_timex` is ideal for cases with:

- **Variable** or strongly **evolving production systems**

- **Long-lived** products

- **Biogenic** carbon

## 👩‍💻 Getting Started

- [Installation Guide](https://docs.brightway.dev/projects/bw-timex/en/latest/content/installation.html)

- [Getting Started Tutorial](https://docs.brightway.dev/projects/bw-timex/en/latest/content/getting_started/index.html)

- [Example Collection](https://docs.brightway.dev/projects/bw-timex/en/latest/content/examples/index.html)

## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! If you have suggestions or want to fix a bug, please:

- [Open an Issue](https://github.com/brightway-lca/bw_timex/issues)

- [Send a Pull Request](https://github.com/brightway-lca/bw_timex/pulls)

## 💬 Support

If you have any questions or need help, do not hesitate to contact us:

- Timo Diepers ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))

- Amelie Müller ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))

- Arthur Jakobs ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))