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ALCIG – Agricultural Life Cycle Inventory Generator

ALCIG is a web-based software that helps LCA practitioners who want to save time and resources and increase reliability of their results by easily generating high quality inventory for crops compatible with LCA software

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ALCIG ¡-­‑ ¡Agricultural ¡Life ¡Cycle ¡Inventory ¡Generator ¡

ALCIG is a web-based software that can produce inventory data with very high reliability (as long it is fed it with good primary data): based on strong background data, precise and specific, coherent, transparent ALCIG is easy to use: LCI are generated in 4 steps and can directly be integrated and used in Simapro. With a simple template that you fill in with your data, you get a ready-to-import file which automatically generates your crop LCA in Simapro. ALCIG increases reliability and reduces cost: very precise data are quickly generated based on non-LCA specific primary data entered by the user and complex models already integrated in ALCIG ALCIG uses the most up-to-date science: the most recent and reliable agriculture models are integrated and used. In addition, it helps you being up-to-date in terms of scientific development High quality data Easy to use Save time and money The best science inside

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A four-steps process to generate high quality inventories for crops

https://alcig.quantis- software.com

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ALCIG ¡-­‑ ¡Agricultural ¡Life ¡Cycle ¡Inventory ¡Generator ¡

Step 1: login and download the data collection file Step 2: fill in the data collection sheet Step 3: upload the data collection sheet to ALCIG Step 4: download a file ready to be imported in your LCA software – your LCI is ready to be used

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Up to 200 parameters to generate your inventory (system, fertilisers, pesticides, machinery, etc.) Default data are used if no primary data is available

Excel based data collection sheet

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ALCIG ¡-­‑ ¡Agricultural ¡Life ¡Cycle ¡Inventory ¡Generator ¡

Ammonia (NH3) from mineral fertilizers application and manure spreading (EMEP/EAA guidelines (2013)) Nitrogen oxides (NOx) from fertilizers application (emission factors from EEA (2013)) Nitrous oxide (N2O) (IPCC (2006) Tier 1 for crop production) Phosphorus (PO4) to water (SALCA-P model (Prasuhn 2006)) Nitrate leaching (NO3) (SQCB- NO3 model (Faist Emmenegger et al 2009)) Heavy metals to agricultural soil, surface water and groundwater (SALCA-heavy metal model (Freiermuth 2006)) CO2 from urea or lime application (IPCC (2006)) Methane (CH4) from rice cultivation (IPCC (2006) Tier 2) Erosion (Universal Soil Loss Equation as described in (Faist Emmenegger et al 2009)) Irrigation (Ecoinvent V3.0 guidelines “Good practice for life cycle inventories --‐ modelling of water use” (Lévová et al. 2012)) Direct land use change from forest/grassland/perennial/annual to perennial/annual (adaptation from Blonk's dLUC tool, with link to ecoinvent v3 "land tenure" processes (compliant with LEAP and PAS 2050))

Models integrated in ALCIG