Sulca 5.0 releases

Sulca 5.0.1 16.4.2015

• First official release

Sulca 5.0.2 20.5.2015

• New Features
  • Sankey diagram
    • Visualizing flow amounts with line width
    • Three categorizations, variables, variable categories, and quantities
  • Importing flowsheets to existing models
  • Improved process dependency analysis for error reporting tool
  • Simantics 1.18
• Bug fixes
  • Excel impact assessment import assumed that data is given in alphabetical order

Sulca 5.0.3 19.8.2015                                                                         

• New Features
  • Sankey diagram improvements
    • categories can be visualised with the legend tool
    • category selection shows category colours
    • adjusting line with
  • Support for variable synonyms, CAS codes, and chemical formulas
  • Ability to edit impact assessment factors with variable editor
  • Importing geography location and time data for EcoInvent v3 processes.
• Bug fixes
  • Verifying imported impact assessment methods
    • Sulca 4 impact assessment methods may contain duplicate factors that prevent flowsheet calculation. Improved calculation error message for such cases.
• LCI data
  • Added Cumulative Energy Demand method
  • Added synonyms to variables sheet
  • Added m3*year and m2*year units for better EcoInvent v3 compatibility

Sulca 5.0.3 sp1 21.8.2015

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed flowsheet import to an existing model (a bug introduced in 5.0.3)

Sulca 5.0.4 22.9.2015

• New features
  • Process export in EcoSpold v1&v2 format
  • Process export in Excel format supports equations
  • Importing multiple files at the same time
• Bug fixes
  • Importing ILCD processes to an existing model fixed
  • Copy-pasting processes with junction equations broke the equations
• LCI data
  • Added EcoInvent v3 compatible unit and variable (exchange) ids.

Sulca 5.0.5 9.11.2015

• New features / Enhancements
  • Importing synonyms and CAS codes with ILCD / ELCD data
  • Flowsheet error detection code is more likely to locate erroneous junction
  • Prevent empty variable names
• Bug fixes
  • Importing Excel files did not take account empty cells, and failed in some cases
  • Importing Sulca 4 flowsheets to an existing model failed, if the flowsheet contained code legend widget.

Sulca 5.0.6 16.3.2016

• New features / Enhancements
  • Importing Impact assessment methods in SimaPro CSV format
  • Handling EcoInvent v3 processes with equations
  • Handling  EcoInvent v3 metric ton * km transport processes
• Bug fixes
  • Several copy-paste fixes
    • Copying result data to Excel did not copy all column headers
    • Copying multiple processes lead to multiple copies of each process
    • Copying a flowsheet into another flowsheet did not work in the model browser
  • Exporting variable names to an Excel file could result out of memory exception

Sulca 5.0.7 7.4.2016

• Bug fixes
  • Copying flowsheets and/or processes  changed process' flow factors in some cases
    • Concerns models created with Sulca 5.0.3 or before and with Excel variables
  • Replacing a process could result in an orphan transport process
  • Report view calculated impact assessment sum for “Codes with …” nodes

Sulca 5.0.8 20.6.2016

• New features / Enhancements
  • Reduced Report view memory usage
  • Slight improvement for flowsheet calculation time
• Bug fixes
  • Transport factor selections were not copied
  • Some SimaPro CSV Impact assessment files could not be imported
  • ELCD 3.2 import fixed
  • Missing functional unit value is reported correctly

Sulca 5.0.9 17.8.2016

• Bug fixes
  • Improved EcoInvent v3 process import for processes with equations
    • We recommend that users re-import EI3 processes that use equations
  • Included CML abiotic depletion factors were set to calculate for output values, when they should be calculated for inputs