Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.320

Improvements and bugfixes

Extended unlicensed test period beyond 1.2.2022

Model Migration Tool

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Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.316

Update of GWP data to ecoinvent 3.8

Due to an issue in the installer of the ecoinvent v3.7.1 database for Umberto Efficiency+, the update to ecoinvent v3.8 is not able to remove the old version. When Umberto reports the following message on start-up “Same Master Data in different versions exist. There are 2 Master Data Files with the name ‘ecoinvent 3 - GWP’” please delete the following file from your computer:

“c:\ProgramData\ifu Hamburg\Umberto Efficiency+\masterdata\ecoinvent 3_MasterData.10.0.3_2021014_full.master”

This operation will require elevated Windows access rights. Please ask your administrator for assistance if you cannot delete the file. Alternatively you can also uninstall and re-install both Efficiency+ and the ecoinvent v3.8 database for Efficiency+ to remove the left over file.

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.8 and therefore no GWP data is available for them in Umberto:
* venting of carbon dioxide, in chemical industry

The following materials are being produced in version 3.8 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes a GWP data calculation in Umberto impossible:
* spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market
* land use change, paddy rice: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 7.5-16 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 3.5-7.5 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry >32 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 3.5-7.5 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 7.5-16 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry >32 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 7.5-16 metric ton, EURO1: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, EURO1: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry >32 metric ton, EURO1: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 3.5-7.5 metric ton, EURO1: no global market

Model Migration Tool

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Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.311

Update of GWP data to ecoinvent 3.7.1

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.7.1 and therefore no GWP data is available for them in Umberto: aircraft, belly freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, dedicated freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, long haul, aircraft, medium haul, aircraft, passenger, unspecified distance, blueberry, building operation, budget hotel (BR), building operation, hostel (BR), building operation, luxury hotel (BR), building, budget hotel (BR), building, hostel (BR), building, luxury hotel (BR), cassava, cement, blast furnace slag 36-65, non-US, cement, pozzolana 36-55, citrus lime, compacting, textile, containerboard, unspecified, copper, blister-copper, copper, cathode (to be deleted), copper, from solvent-extraction electro-winning, cranberry, dust, alloyed electric arc furnace steel, electricity, nuclear, boiling water reactor, production mix, electricity, nuclear, pressure water reactor, production mix, energy use and combustion emissions, lorry 20-28 metric ton, empty, fleet average, epoxy resin, folding boxboard/chipboard, freight ship, transoceanic, ginger, glued laminated timber, for outdoor use, guar, heavy fuel oil, burned in industrial furnace 1MW, kraft paper, bleached, kraft paper, unbleached, lentil, maintenance, freight ship, transoceanic, methane, 96 by volume, from biogas, high pressure, at user, mulberry, nitrate salts, from solar power application, paper ash, particleboard, for indoor use, particleboard, for outdoor use, plywood, for indoor use, plywood, for outdoor use, polishing powder, pulpwood, dry, rare earth hydroxide concentrate, raspberry, rice, roundwood, azobe from sustainable forest management, debarked, roundwood, meranti from sustainable forest management, debarked, rug, sawlog and veneer log, hardwood, debarked, measured as solid wood, sawnwood, hardwood, raw, debarked, sawnwood, softwood, raw, debarked, shavings, measured as dry mass, solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, spinning, bast fibre, sulfate pulp, sulfate pulp, unbleached, from eucalyptus ssp. from sustainable forest management, TH, sulfidic tailing, off-site, tall oil, refined, tanker, transoceanic, three layered laminated board, transport, freight, aircraft, unspecified distance, transport, freight, sea, liquefied natural gas, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic ship, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic tanker, transport, passengers, aircraft, unspecified distance, turmeric, venting, from carbon dioxide in chemical industry, waste paint, collection for hazardous waste incineration, wastewater, bleaching and dyeing, weaving, bast fibre.

The following materials are being produced in version 3.7.1 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes a GWP data calculation in Umberto impossible: * spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market * land use change, paddy rice: no global market

Model Migration Tool

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Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.303

Improvements and bugfixes

Display issues on computers with high resolution monitors and/or high DPI scaling have been fixed.

Update of GWP data to ecoinvent 3.7

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.7 and therefore no GWP data is available for them in Umberto: aircraft, belly freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, dedicated freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, long haul, aircraft, medium haul, aircraft, passenger, unspecified distance, blueberry, building operation, budget hotel (BR), building operation, hostel (BR), building operation, luxury hotel (BR), building, budget hotel (BR), building, hostel (BR), building, luxury hotel (BR), cassava, cement, blast furnace slag 36-65, non-US, cement, pozzolana 36-55, citrus lime, compacting, textile, containerboard, unspecified, copper, blister-copper, copper, cathode (to be deleted), copper, from solvent-extraction electro-winning, cranberry, dust, alloyed electric arc furnace steel, electricity, nuclear, boiling water reactor, production mix, electricity, nuclear, pressure water reactor, production mix, energy use and combustion emissions, lorry 20-28 metric ton, empty, fleet average, epoxy resin, folding boxboard/chipboard, freight ship, transoceanic, ginger, glued laminated timber, for outdoor use, guar, heavy fuel oil, burned in industrial furnace 1MW, kraft paper, bleached, kraft paper, unbleached, lentil, maintenance, freight ship, transoceanic, methane, 96 by volume, from biogas, high pressure, at user, mulberry, nitrate salts, from solar power application, paper ash, particleboard, for indoor use, particleboard, for outdoor use, plywood, for indoor use, plywood, for outdoor use, polishing powder, pulpwood, dry, rare earth hydroxide concentrate, raspberry, rice, roundwood, azobe from sustainable forest management, debarked, roundwood, meranti from sustainable forest management, debarked, rug, sawlog and veneer log, hardwood, debarked, measured as solid wood, sawnwood, hardwood, raw, debarked, sawnwood, softwood, raw, debarked, shavings, measured as dry mass, solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, spinning, bast fibre, sulfate pulp, sulfate pulp, unbleached, from eucalyptus ssp. from sustainable forest management, TH, sulfidic tailing, off-site, tall oil, refined, tanker, transoceanic, three layered laminated board, transport, freight, aircraft, unspecified distance, transport, freight, sea, liquefied natural gas, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic ship, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic tanker, transport, passengers, aircraft, unspecified distance, turmeric, venting, from carbon dioxide in chemical industry, waste paint, collection for hazardous waste incineration, wastewater, bleaching and dyeing, weaving, bast fibre.

The following materials are being produced in version 3.7 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes a GWP data calculation in Umberto impossible: * spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market * land use change, paddy rice: no global market

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.303

Update of GWP data to ecoinvent 3.7

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.7 and therefore no GWP data is available for them in Umberto: aircraft, belly freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, dedicated freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, long haul, aircraft, medium haul, aircraft, passenger, unspecified distance, blueberry, building operation, budget hotel (BR), building operation, hostel (BR), building operation, luxury hotel (BR), building, budget hotel (BR), building, hostel (BR), building, luxury hotel (BR), cassava, cement, blast furnace slag 36-65, non-US, cement, pozzolana 36-55, citrus lime, compacting, textile, containerboard, unspecified, copper, blister-copper, copper, cathode (to be deleted), copper, from solvent-extraction electro-winning, cranberry, dust, alloyed electric arc furnace steel, electricity, nuclear, boiling water reactor, production mix, electricity, nuclear, pressure water reactor, production mix, energy use and combustion emissions, lorry 20-28 metric ton, empty, fleet average, epoxy resin, folding boxboard/chipboard, freight ship, transoceanic, ginger, glued laminated timber, for outdoor use, guar, heavy fuel oil, burned in industrial furnace 1MW, kraft paper, bleached, kraft paper, unbleached, lentil, maintenance, freight ship, transoceanic, methane, 96 by volume, from biogas, high pressure, at user, mulberry, nitrate salts, from solar power application, paper ash, particleboard, for indoor use, particleboard, for outdoor use, plywood, for indoor use, plywood, for outdoor use, polishing powder, pulpwood, dry, rare earth hydroxide concentrate, raspberry, rice, roundwood, azobe from sustainable forest management, debarked, roundwood, meranti from sustainable forest management, debarked, rug, sawlog and veneer log, hardwood, debarked, measured as solid wood, sawnwood, hardwood, raw, debarked, sawnwood, softwood, raw, debarked, shavings, measured as dry mass, solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, spinning, bast fibre, sulfate pulp, sulfate pulp, unbleached, from eucalyptus ssp. from sustainable forest management, TH, sulfidic tailing, off-site, tall oil, refined, tanker, transoceanic, three layered laminated board, transport, freight, aircraft, unspecified distance, transport, freight, sea, liquefied natural gas, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic ship, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic tanker, transport, passengers, aircraft, unspecified distance, turmeric, venting, from carbon dioxide in chemical industry, waste paint, collection for hazardous waste incineration, wastewater, bleaching and dyeing, weaving, bast fibre.

The following materials are being produced in version 3.7 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes a GWP data calculation in Umberto impossible: * spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market * land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market * land use change, paddy rice: no global market

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.293

Update of GWP data to ecoinvent 3.6

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.290

Export and Import of project materials and cost types

This new feature exports and imports project materials and cost types in Umberto. You can access it via the menu 'File -> Export project materials and cost types...' or 'File -> Import project materials and cost types...'.

Export

The export generates an Excel file with worksheets for material groups, project materials, cost type groups and cost types. It also generates a worksheet with an introduction and a list of units of measure.

The worksheet ‘Introduction’ contains a list of available units and can be used as a reference when you add new materials. Note: This worksheet is for informational purposes only. It is not allowed to add user defined units or change the existing units. Any changes in this worksheet will be ignored during import.

The worksheet ‘Material Groups’ lists material groups with information about their hierarchy and group type. Please find the list of valid group type values below: * RawMaterials * Emissions * Energy * Intermediates * Products * MaterialLoss * UnavoidableWaste * Other

The worksheet ‘Cost Type Groups’ contains the same information for cost type groups. Valid group types are: * EnergyCost * SystemCost * WasteManagementCost * Other

The worksheet ‘Project Materials’ lists user defined project materials, i.e. no master data materials like ecoinvent exchanges. In addition to information about the containing group, unit of measure, and material type (Good, Bad, Neutral), it also contains information about the functional unit, if any.

The worksheet ‘Cost Types’ is similar to the worksheet ‘Project Materials’, with the exception that it does not allow for the definition of functional units.

Import

During import, the data read from the worksheets ‘Material Groups’, ‘Project Materials’, ‘Cost Type Groups’ and ‘Cost Types’ will be compared with the data present in Umberto. Please keep in mind that the import does not modify existing entries. It will only add new data.

Existing entries are looked up by UUIDs. If the UUID column is empty, entries are looked up by name. Additional checks by name are performed for materials of the same material group to make sure no two materials exists with the same name. The same applies to groups of the same name with different UUIDs.

When you want to manually add materials or material groups, you do not have to specify UUIDs, but it might be helpful when working with groups with identical names but different parent groups. On the Internet you will find convenient support. Just search for ‘generate UUID’.

Export and Import of assessment factors

This new feature exports and imports assessment factors, such as market price or GWP, in Umberto. You can access it via the menu 'File -> Export assessment factors...' or 'File -> Import assessment factors...'.

Export

During export, an Excel file with materials and their assessment factors is generated. You can choose to export all or only the assessment factors that have been activated.

Optionally, master data materials (e.g., ecoinvent) with their assessment factors can be exported, too.

In the generated Excel file, the assessment factors can now be adjusted in order to subsequently import them. You should not make any other changes in the Excel file, such as the renaming of materials. Otherwise, an import can no longer be performed. Also, tables should not be moved and worksheets should not be renamed.

The Excel file contains several worksheets, starting with ‘Assessment methods’ showing a list of all exported assessment methods.

The worksheet 'Project Materials' lists all the materials used in the project, both self-created materials and master data materials. In addition, the stored assessment factors per material are listed.

If the ‘Export materials from enabled master data libraries’ option has been activated, a worksheet is also created for each master database in which all the materials are listed with the associated assessment factors.

User-defined assessment factors

During import, user-defined assessment factors are imported first. Initially this searches by UUID for existing assessment factors. If this is unsuccessful, the system searches for name, group name and unit name. If this too is not successful, the assessment factor is created and activated.

This is how to create assessment factors manually:

• Open LCIA factors via menu 'Tools -> LCIA factors'

  

• Add a new group / method.

  

• Rename the indicator and add as many new indicators as required. Do not forget to select an unit.

  

Import

Now you can import the assessment factors from the file generated before.

If you do not want to import assessment factors for master data materials, unselect the checkbox. In this case only the assessment factors from the worksheet 'Project Materials' will be imported. However, assessment factors for master data materials listed in this worksheet are always imported.

Note: - If assessment factors for master data materials are adjusted, the corresponding materials are copied to the project, if they do not already exist. - For master data materials, only the market price and user-defined assessment methods can be adjusted, changes to predefined assessment methods are ignored.

Scenario Calculation

Improved ease of access and usability of the Scenario Calculation tool. The following extensions and corrections have been made:

• Now supports up to 500 parameters
• Added explanatory comments for named Excel regions, accessible via the Namesmanager
• Scenario Number Range is no longer restricted to numbers and now allows for text, allowing the user to use more explanatory scenario identifiers
• Result Excel file is now locked during the scenario calculation preventing issues caused by concurrent editing

• More configuration possibilities via dialog

  

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• Fixed display issue in LCIA sankey mode for user defined material properties
• Fixed issue of missing products in cost related result views
• The currently selected calculation result view is restored after a calculation
• More MFCA related result exports
• Fixed MFCA matrix, results may have been wrong when model contains treatment processes and loops

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.287

Scenario Calculation

• You can now calculate multiple scenarios at once using menu ‘Calculation -> Calculate Excel Scenarios’. The scenarios are managed using Microsoft Excel and Umberto Live Links. Currently only LCIA Raw Data are exported (Carbon Footprint).
• An example excel file with documentation (ScenarioAnalysis.xlsx) can be found in your Efficiency+ documents folder after the first start of Umberto.
• A step-by-step guide is also available for download as PDF ScenarioAnalysis PDF

Update of GWP data to ecoinvent 3.5

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• Performance improvements: MFCA results, LCI(A) Sankeys
• Remedy error preventing Live links to be created in the german version of Umberto
• When copying a whole model via context menu ‘Copy Model’ the description of the model is copied as well
• Calculation log can be sorted by severity
• Fixed error when importing color sets

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.270

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• Fixed cell format of MFCA results exported to Excel

• When using ‘Print Net’ to print a non-Sankey net, it will now print all arrows regardless of their Sankey settings

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.262

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• Installer preserves user file rights of migrated Umberto licenses.

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Release Notes for Umberto Efficiency+ 10.0.3.257

Umberto Efficiency+ is the successor product for Umberto NXT C02, Umberto NXT Efficiency and Umberto NXT MFCA and combines the functionality of the former products and adds many new features.

Major Changes

• MFCA: Material Flow Cost Accounting is an instrument to identify and calculate the real cost of waste and material losses. It can be an important element in tackling corporate resource efficiency.
• GroupType for MaterialGroups: The GroupType predefines the MaterialType of contained materials and is used by the MFCA calculation to classify materials.
  
• Carbon Footprint: CO2-Results with Summary, Details and Chart, and additionally a MFCA GWP Matrix.
• More than 700 predefined assessment methods
  • the ecoinvent 2.2 GWP database contains values for “climate change, GWP 100a, IPCC2007” (included).
  • the ecoinvent 3.4 GWP database contains values for “climate change, GWP 100a, IPCC2013” (not included, requires ecoinvent license).
• GWP property used for results and sankeys is replaced by the official assessment methods “climate change, GWP 100a, IPCC2007” (default) or “climate change, GWP 100a, IPCC2013”. You can select the assessment method via menu “Tools->Options”.
  
• Live Links for Market Prices: You can now Add live links for the market price of materials in the property editor of a material.
  
• Process Dependencies: The specification of nets now contains an additional tab for “Process Dependencies” which can be used to enforce the calculation order of selected processes and subnets.
  
• German user interface: You can now change the language settings via menu “Tools->Options”. This setting has effect on all texts as well as number formats, eg. ‘.’ vs. ‘,’ as decimal separator (except functions/formulas and scripts).
• Combined Material Flow and Cost Raw Data Export for results.

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