Databases
Start from the database you work with
VoLCA does not sell databases. It makes the databases you already use inspectable, computable, and interoperable - public reference data, licensed data, and your own. Public examples rely on data that can be shared legally; real workflows also involve licensed or private data.
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Public reference / France
Agribalyse
The French national food LCA database, published by ADEME. VoLCA loads the Agribalyse 3.2 SimaPro CSV export, computes EF 3.1 impacts on it, answers agent questions grounded in it, and re-exports it to other formats.
Browse / inspect
Inspect and compute impacts on Agribalyse
Search activities, open records, inspect exchanges, trees, inventories, and impact results without heavy expert-tool friction.
Import / Agribalyse
Load an Agribalyse SimaPro CSV
Start from an Agribalyse 3.2 SimaPro CSV export, load it into VoLCA, then continue to search and inspect the imported database.
AI / agents
Instant answers on Agribalyse + EF3.1
Connect an assistant to VoLCA through MCP so answers can point back to real datasets, methods, activities, and inspectable evidence.
Interoperability proof
Agribalyse to ILCD and EcoSpold 1/2
A reproducible check: load the SimaPro CSV, export to ILCD and EcoSpold 1/2, and verify checksums, timings, and dataset counts with a standalone script.
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What-if analysis
Swap conventional for organic wheat across Agribalyse
Find farm-gate ingredients upstream of processed products and substitute them with alternatives - one guided product, or every affected product in the database.
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Supply-chain slicing
Split a supply chain by classification path
Group a product’s supply chain by the classifications the database already carries and extract the animal-feed share to CSV - no ML, the categories come from the data.
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Cross-check example: the Agribalyse inspection walkthrough compares VoLCA's EF 3.1 results with Ecobalyse scores on the same products.
Public reference / Switzerland
BAFU
The public LCA data published by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU). Legally shareable and credible, it grounds VoLCA's public demos, screenshots, and walkthroughs.
Public database example
Inspect BAFU fast
Use a shareable BAFU example to evaluate search speed, navigation, process trees, mappings, and structural inspection.
Numerical check
VoLCA EF 3.1 scores vs the official BAFU results
Score BAFU 2026v1 with four EF 3.1 collections, compare against the official BAFU LCIA Results spreadsheet, and get deviation statistics plus an optional HTML report.
See the runnable example →
Private / custom
Your own databases
Real evaluation eventually requires your own databases, your own constraints, and sometimes private data. VoLCA imports EcoSpold 1/2, SimaPro CSV, and ILCD, links flows across databases, and keeps every mapping inspectable.
Private / custom data
Import your own databases
Bring VoLCA to internal, licensed, or custom databases when public examples are not enough for a real decision.
Database production
Maintain and publish an LCA database
Connect validation, traceable edits, batch calculation and versioned exports to your existing review and publication workflow.
Linked databases
Trace a supply chain across linked databases
List every activity a computation actually reaches, dump its cross-database exchanges with amounts and units, and diagnose unit or scaling mismatches.
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Visible compatibility
Gaps are shown, not hidden
Compatibility is rarely all-or-nothing. VoLCA shows which data loaded, which mappings or references remain unresolved, which method or conversion path was used, and which caveats still matter - so you can judge what is trustworthy now.
Licensed data
ecoinvent and other licensed databases
VoLCA works with licensed databases such as ecoinvent under your own license: load your licensed copy locally or in a private deployment, and keep your work on it reproducible and inspectable - without redistributing the data. Public examples stay grounded in datasets that can be shared openly.
Your database is not listed here?
If VoLCA reads its format, it can load it. Tell us what you work with - early setups happen through direct conversations.