So I want to import my own LCI database to Brightway2, and my process has 3 valuable products.
I found this example with co-products: https://github.com/massimopizzol/B4B/blob/main/02.2_Simple_LCA_co_products.py
The example shows more or less how it works, but I would like to use allocation for my process and not substitution. Should I just change the type to "allocation" instead of putting there "substitution", or is bw2 not supporting allocation? Also, if we have 3 valuable products, the first one is part of the main activity as type="production", and 2 others have 'type="substitution"? And for the other 2, we create 2 separate activities and they are just kinda one exchange activity, in which their type is production, like the example?
Besides just to make sure, if one of the inputs has the type="technosphere", we need to create another activity where we show the process behind it. When it comes to raw products, they have the type="biosphere", and their amounts are negative, in comparison to emissions.
I set other valuable products type as "substitution" and for each of them I created a new activity, where their type was equal to "production". Overall it worked, but the obtained LCA score wasn't correct, so I don't know if it wasn't conceptual mistake.
Thank you in advance for all your help and time!
So, Brightway currently does not have a model where you can enter a multifunctional process and get the software to do allocation for you. You will need to do the allocation yourself :) Here is a notebook I wrote up that shows a simple allocation procedure.
P.S. In the future please only post to one of the beginners mailing list or SO, otherwise everyone doesn't get notified twice.