Dear Sir

I know of one software named Sima Pro and have seen researchers work on LCA of renewable energy products like solar collectors, LCA of pharmaceutical industry.

http://www.pre-sustainability.com/simapro

As Mr. Shashank Vyas answered, the Sima Pro is the best software for evaluation of LCA of any installation.

You can download the free demo or order it from the website: 

http://www.pre-sustainability.com/simapro

It is definitely Simapro. You can download it's demo from the Internet for free. Because you are university professor living in a developing country, you my be entitled to a free 6-month-license if you need that software only for academic purposes, not commercial ones.  Just fill the form out and fax it to the company to apply for a free academic license.  

Thank you to Ali, Abtin, Taqiy and shashank. I too had heard about Simapro. Now, I am more sure about purchasing the right software while I keep in mind the reservation made by Ali.

Truly yours

karbassi

Umberto Demo is ok

send an email to info@ ifu. com to get more updates on that. Thats for the Umberto. 

see the excerpt below...

"Umberto NXT Universal is the best LCA software out there. Their technical and modeling support is top-notch as well."

Rebecca LeBlanc, Sustainability Consultant from Boston, USA

"The Umberto models I present to my clients leave a lasting impression long after I have left the room. I have been using Umberto for over 15 years."

Dr. Martin Schottler, Process Engineering Consultant from Stuttgart, Germany

Till date SimaPro is known to be widely used software compared to others.

Thank you Roy.

Truly

ARK

Thank you Mussie

It seems that everyone agrees with Simapro and I was the only person whom was not aware of such software!

ARK

I use SimaPro

SimaPro seems to be the software most preferred by LCA practitioners, including the pioneers of LCA studies. Nevertheless, the free and relatively new software, OpenLCA, may be a very competing one.

Dear Amelio

Thank you very much. I will try it out.

Truly yours

karbassi

Dear Mr. Karbassi,

I think that you should follow the next Q&A topic:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_best_Life_Cycle_Assessment_software_in_terms_of_costbenefit

Dear Mr. Karbassi,

I agree with Yirviel: although Simapro is used widely, Open LCA developed by GreenDelta is a good free access software as Life Cycle Assessment tool

Simapro is powerful. There are also Team and Gabi. Don't forget to check the quality of the Database.

WH

Dear Dr Karbassi

I have SimaPro software for about 2 years but unfortunately, I haven't enough time to work with it. I think  It takes a lot of time to learn it.  

SimaPro would be the best option with adequate database. For software, you may contact an agent from Pre-consultant.

SimaPro seems to be the best because it is powerful and widely used. But the database (Ecoinvent) needs to be improved and adapted. A training is possible too. 

Thank you all.

I have used SimaPro and found it to pretty user friendly and efficient. 

Thank you MS. Yadav

It seems that everybody agree with SimaPro

Truly yours

SimaPro

Thank you Amelio

Few simulation tools for Life cycle assessment are SimaPro, One Click LCA, GaBi, Umberto LCA, openLCA.

Among these, the most popular and widely preferred tools are SimaPro, GaBI and Umberto, 

Based on your needs you can prefer anyone, few are paid and few are open source.

All the best...!!! 

 I am using simapro since 2003. I think it is the best performing. Regards.

Dear Terranova

Thank you for your constructive suggestion.

karbassi

Simapro, Open LCA, GABI

Thanks Islam

from my check, it seems that SimaPro is the best, but needs a thorough understanding to use it

Thank you Mr. Joel.

Dear Mr. Karbassi,

most important is the quality of the database which the software is using.

In Germany very common ist GaBi.

Obviously GaBi is the most trusted product sustainability solution for Life Cycle Assessment with over 10,000 users including 500 companies, leading industry associations and innovative SMEs. This helps to keep the database on the reliable level which the customer needs.

http://www.gabi-software.com/international/software/

With best regards

Michael

Dear colleagues,

what do you say about OpenLCA?, is worthy?

Dear Dr.Karbassi

My suggestion is SimaPro, GaBI and Umberto,

Regards,J.Ghoddousi

Thank you Prof. Ghoddousi for the suggestions.

dearest professor Karbassi

you can also try the following open access online software:

http://www.eiolca.net

Dear Pouya

Thank you for the link. I paid a visit to the site of eiolca. It seems very good but I have to explore it in more details.

Truly yorus

please let me know if you need the excel sheets of my recent research. It contained the materials inventory of a complex system consisted of power plants, solar PVs, wind turbines, reverse osmosis systems including the required energy and water in various stages of production.

That would be very nice of you. Please kindly email me.

Thanks

an email was sent. please inform me if further databases are required.

I am a beginne so, for an academic study, is it better to use ACV software or do it manually?

M. Asadi

SmaPro is the answer. Just write to the company for license file and confirm it is for educational purpose only. Thanks.

I download OpenLCA for my study in waste flow in drilling operation. Does anyone could advice on how to set up a database properly or share platform to set up LCA . This could help me to understand how to manage the database easily. Thank you inadvance.

Dear Kraisingha

Please see the attache file for database.

Dear Kraisingha, I'd also suggest you checking OpenLCA's youtube channel. They have posted several helpful step-by-step tutorials.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGiahq1YZWK4pRXDVXuIi6w

Thank you Dr. Chen

Have u completed doing LCA project for petrochemical and refinery.

Actually i m also performing LCA for refineryin India. I am using SImapro for the same.which software have u used

Hello, here is the update openLCA guideline for Comprehensive openLCA manual for version 1.7, v. 1.1, November 2017.

http://www.openlca.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/openLCA1.7_User_Manual_v1.1.pdf

I hope this helps.

Thank you Roy;; I received your suggestion.

Truly yours

Dear all,

Please give your opinion about Umberto LCA+ software over the other ones.

GaBi and SimaPro

Thank you Mr. Ashfaque

Simapro

I think openLCA could be an option. Plus, it's an open source software and allows variety of changes if one wants to make... You may get more info about it in the link copied below:

http://www.openlca.org/

Maybe this question and its answers are useful for this discussion, too: https://www.researchgate.net/post/what_is_the_main_purpose_of_using_GaBi_software_compared_to_simapro_in_life_cycle_assessment#

As Rahul was asking for Umberto in addition to the other tools, I would just like to add that one advantage of using Umberto in the context of refineries etc. might be its ability to model processes in a flexible manner even including Python script definitions of processes and so forth. Also its ability to deal with multi-functionality, i.e. simultaneously computing LCI for several products and by-products, might be benficial.

Thanks Dear Tobias Viere for the valuable comments

Dear Professor Karbassi, Open LCA, SimaPro and GaBi. We are using at this moment Gabi 8 thinkstep. Best wishes, Viktoria

Thank you MS. Mannheim for the suggestion.

Dear Dr. Subhasis Basu is there any help or tutorial available for OpenLCA?

Life Cycle Assessment software. openLCA is an open source and free software for Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment.

Dear Basu and Dawagreh

Thank you very much for the words.

Please dear friends, Can I use (OpenLCA) software in a Life Cycle Assessment study on drinking water purification plants? Or is there another free software?

Please try http://www.openlca.org/ ...see if this can be of any use.

I would recommend Simapro as it enjoys reasonably good database for a variety of materials. However, based on a humble experience in the field of the LCA , I do recommend you to be very specific and precise while determining the boundaries of the system as the results are extremely sensitive to these boundaries.

You can use SimaPro software

SimaPro or also you can try OpenLCA

Open lca,manual LCA by ms PowerPoint,GIS software data for petrochemical industries,GABi software for impact assessment and analysis,Boustead Life Cycle Assessmenteco-balance, eco-profile, cradle-to-grave analysis, life-cycle inventory, life-cycle analysis, and life-cycle as,simapro software for product environmental footprints analysis

OpenLCA and you can have the database that is better for your work here https://nexus.openlca.org/databases , there are free databases.

I think SimaPro is the best software for LCA analysis.

The link: https://nexus.openlca.org/ for adding and downloading databases is not opening. can anyone help me with this issue?

You can use OpenLCA software. because its free.

Definitely SimaPro

Hello,

Based on my personal experience:

1) SimaPro is good for fast analysis, but don't give sufficient room to understand deep how the flows work and connect to each other.

2) GaBi is equivalent to SimaPro but slow. Good thing is it allows users to understand flows and model better.

3) I yet to try LCA with OpenLCA.

So, if you want to build solid knowledge of LCA and better understand your project, go for GaBi. If you want fast result, choose SimaPro.

Regarding purchase, visit their websites, you will get the required information.

Thanks and regards

SimaPro is actually considered the best software due to its simplicity and user-friendly nature and widely used by industrial and academic areas. But it's not free unfortunately! you must register annually.

SimaPro

SimaPro is more user-friendly.

SimaPro

I found Umberto LCA software very user friendly

Dear A. R. Karbassi ,

I hope you are doing great. I highly recommend SimaPro, Umberto LCA and open LCA for this purpose, as I have carried out different studies using this tools.

Best Regards

I use GaBi for research, and for teaching an undergraduate LCA course which is great because it's free! It's great for developing a deeper understanding of the LCA methodology (as eluded to by Moonmoon) and has good supporting material. However, you never own the software you have to pay an annual licence fee. The main disadvantage for researchers using GaBi is that you can't import datasets, and GaBi's own datasets are expensive.

If you wish to purchase, go for Simapro. If you want something free, use OpenLCA...

Dear A. R. Karbassi ,

I agree with Greg McNamara . GaBi combines the world’s leading Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) modelling and reporting software, content databases with intuitive data collection and reporting tools.

I would like to recommend you the B-Sat tool which has simple interface for data input such as life expectancy, vehicle type and distance of transport etc.

http://building-sat.com/wp-login.php

Any recommended "database" for wastewater related Life Cycle Assessment?

I think Umberto software is much userfiendly

SimaPro

SimaPro

I use Umerto NXT software for LCA which I found quite user friendly.

Hello.

Sima Pro is the best one for Iranian citizens.

Sima Pro is the most used in the academic field and by LCA consultants.

SimaPro is user friendly with robust database.

SimaPro is the best