Abstract
A circular economy emphasizes the efficient use of all resources (e.g., materials, land, water). Despite anticipated overall benefits to society, the transition to a circular economy is likely to create regional differences in impacts. Current tools are unable to fully evaluate these potential externalities, which will be important for informing research prioritization and regional decision making. The Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and VIsualization (CELAVI) framework allows stakeholders to quantify and visualize potential regional and sectoral transfers of impacts that could result from transitioning to a circular economy, with particular focus on energy materials. The framework uses system dynamics to model material flows for multiple circular economy pathways and decisions are based on learning-by-doing and are implemented via cost and strategic value of different circular economy pathways. It uses network theory to track the spatial and sectoral flow of functional units across a graph and discrete event simulation to to step through time and evaluate lifecycle assessment data at each time step. The framework is designed to be flexible and scalable to accommodate multiple energy materials and multiple energy technologies. The primary goal of CELAVI is to help answer questions about how material flows and environmental and economic impacts of energy
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- Developers:
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Eberle, Annika [1] ; Key, Alicia [1] ; Hanes, Rebecca [1] ; Ghosh, Tapajyoti [1] ; Potter, Kristin [1]
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Release Date:
- 2021-04-22
- Project Type:
- Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Programming Languages:
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Python
Python
- Licenses:
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GNU General Public License v3.0
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) ProgramPrimary Award/Contract Number:AC36-08GO28308
- Code ID:
- 65295
- Site Accession Number:
- NREL SWR-20-87
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Eberle, Annika, Key, Alicia, Hanes, Rebecca, Ghosh, Tapajyoti, and Potter, Kristin.
CELAVI (Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and VIsualization) [SWR-20-87].
Computer Software.
https://github.com/NREL/celavi.
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program.
22 Apr. 2021.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20211004.4.
Eberle, Annika, Key, Alicia, Hanes, Rebecca, Ghosh, Tapajyoti, & Potter, Kristin.
(2021, April 22).
CELAVI (Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and VIsualization) [SWR-20-87].
[Computer software].
https://github.com/NREL/celavi.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211004.4.
Eberle, Annika, Key, Alicia, Hanes, Rebecca, Ghosh, Tapajyoti, and Potter, Kristin.
"CELAVI (Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and VIsualization) [SWR-20-87]." Computer software.
April 22, 2021.
https://github.com/NREL/celavi.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211004.4.
@misc{
doecode_65295,
title = {CELAVI (Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and VIsualization) [SWR-20-87]},
author = {Eberle, Annika and Key, Alicia and Hanes, Rebecca and Ghosh, Tapajyoti and Potter, Kristin},
abstractNote = {A circular economy emphasizes the efficient use of all resources (e.g., materials, land, water). Despite anticipated overall benefits to society, the transition to a circular economy is likely to create regional differences in impacts. Current tools are unable to fully evaluate these potential externalities, which will be important for informing research prioritization and regional decision making. The Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and VIsualization (CELAVI) framework allows stakeholders to quantify and visualize potential regional and sectoral transfers of impacts that could result from transitioning to a circular economy, with particular focus on energy materials. The framework uses system dynamics to model material flows for multiple circular economy pathways and decisions are based on learning-by-doing and are implemented via cost and strategic value of different circular economy pathways. It uses network theory to track the spatial and sectoral flow of functional units across a graph and discrete event simulation to to step through time and evaluate lifecycle assessment data at each time step. The framework is designed to be flexible and scalable to accommodate multiple energy materials and multiple energy technologies. The primary goal of CELAVI is to help answer questions about how material flows and environmental and economic impacts of energy systems might change if the circularity of energy systems increases.},
doi = {10.11578/dc.20211004.4},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211004.4},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211004.4}},
year = {2021},
month = {apr}
}