Data Design & Architecture
The CLiCC Tool will require a wide variety of data resources drawn from external data sources and user inputs, as well as generated internally. All required data for an LCIA computation will be stored locally in a relational database. External data sources that are important to a computation will be mirrored locally so that direct computations will not rely on potentially slow outside queries. This mirroring will occur on a periodic basis using automated tools that extract data from remote sources and process it to conform to a local schema. The local database schema is in early stages of development.
We expect the user to provide the following inputs to the CLiCC tool:
- Chemical Properties Module
- User provides chemical name or structure (SMILES)
- Upstream Chemical Process Module (upstream users)
- User inputs reactions, kinetics & operating conditions (optional)
- Release Module (mostly downstream users)
- User inputs range of production volumes (market size)
- Intended product applications (optional)
- Characterization Module
- User selects geographies (scenarios) to model from menu or inputs own scenario(s)
- User selects fuel and feedstock (bio or fossil)
- Weights for impacts (optional)
- Uncertainty thresholds (optional)