Interfaces

Note that these descriptions are not necessarily exhaustive, but do include all columns that will be used by ensemble.

ecoinvent DataFrames

products

The products DataFrame lists the products present in the rows of A, the technosphere matrix. It is unordered, and indexed by the productId column.

Columns

  • productId: string. Ecoinvent UUID of the product.
  • productName: string. Name of product.
  • unitId: string. Ecoinvent UUID of the unit
  • unitName: string. Ecoinvent name of unit, e.g. “kg”.

activities

The activities DataFrame lists the industrial activities in the columns of A, the technosphere matrix, and B, the biosphere matrix. It is unordered, and indexed by the activityId column,

Remember that there can be multiple activities in different locations with the same activityId.

Activity types

  • 0: ordinary transforming activity
  • 1: market activity
  • 2: IO activity
  • 3: Residual activity
  • 4: production mix
  • 5: import activity
  • 6: supply mix
  • 7: export activity
  • 8: re-export activity
  • 9: correction activity
  • 10: market group

Columns

  • activityId: string. Ecoinvent UUID of the activity.
  • productId: string. Ecoinvent UUID of the reference product for this instance of the activity.
  • activityName: string. Name of activity.
  • ISIC: string. Activity classification, e.g. “8292:Packaging activities”
  • geography: string. Location of activity.
  • technologyLevel: string. For example, “Current”
  • activityType: int. See above.
  • startDate: string, YYYY-MM-DD. For example, “1996-01-01”.
  • endDate: string, YYYY-MM-DD. For example, “1996-01-01”.

Environmental stressors (elementary exchanges)

File: STR.csv Data frame containing all basic information about the different environmental stressors.

Columns

  • id: string. Ecoinvent UUID of the elementary exchange.
  • name: string. Name of stressor.
  • unit: string. Name of Unit (e.g. kg.)
  • cas: string. Cas classification e.g. “000110-63-4”
  • comp: string. Compartment of stressor.
  • subcomp: string. Subcompartment of stressor.

G_act

Pandas DataFrame listing all environmental exchanges (rows) per activity (columns):

Index

  • id: string. Ecoinevent UUID of elementary exchange

Colunms

  • Activities: float. Cumulative elementry exchange per activity per elementary exchange

EXIOBASE SUT DataFrames