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FLOWSA: A Python Package Attributing Resource Use, Waste, Emissions, and Other Flows to Industries (2022)
Citation:
Birney, C., B. Young, M. Li, M. Conner, J. Specht, AND Wesley W. Ingwersen. FLOWSA: A Python Package Attributing Resource Use, Waste, Emissions, and Other Flows to Industries (2022). Applied Sciences. MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 12(11):5742, (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115742
Impact/Purpose:
To describe the flowsa software package with examples of it's use to attribute environmental data to industrial sectors.
Description:
Quantifying industry consumption or production of resources, wastes, emissions, and losses—collectively called flows—is a complex and evolving process. The attribution of flows to industries often requires allocating multiple data sources that span spatial and temporal scopes and contain varied levels of aggregation. Once calculated, datasets can quickly become outdated with new releases of source data. The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) developed the open-source Flow Sector Attribution (FLOWSA) Python package to address the challenges surrounding attributing flows to US industrial and final-use sectors. Models capture flows drawn from or released to the environment by sectors, as well as flow transfers between sectors. Data on flow use and generation by source-defined activities are imported from providers and transformed into standardized tables but are otherwise numerically unchanged in preparation for modeling.
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DOI: FLOWSA: A Python Package Attributing Resource Use, Waste, Emissions, and Other Flows to Industries (2022)
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