Affiliation:
1. Department of Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Abstract
Ensuring the sustainability of wind turbine blades will be an important requirement for new wind turbines to be installed in the coming years and decades. Several new wind turbines with blades from recyclable materials have already been installed, among which are blades based on recyclamine® and EzCiclo. The wind turbines of the new generation are subject to extreme mechanical and physical loading, can be damaged during service time, and will require maintenance and repair. In this paper, technologies for the repair and recycling of the new generation of materials for wind turbine blades are reviewed. Repair technologies for thermoplastic blades, recyclamine®- and vitrimer-based composites, and other new blade composites are discussed.
Funder
the Innovation Foundation of Denmark in the framework of the project “WiseWind: New generation of sustainable wind turbine blades”
the European Commission via the Horizon project “Blades2Build: Recycle, repurpose and reuse end-of-life wind blades composites: A coupled pre- and co- processing demonstration plant”
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction
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