These wind turbine blades are predominately a mixture of glass fiber composites (GFCs) and wood and currently have not found an economically viable recycling pathway. This work investigates a series of second generation composites fabricated using recycled wind turbine material and a polyurethane ...
If the blades can hold up to outdoor conditions, they could help accelerate onshore and offshore wind power
“This is an industry-first commitment and complements our already existing ambition to reuse or recycle all wind turbine blades.” According to the company, Ørsted has already recycled 4,000 panels even though Ørsted’s US solar projects are still under development. “We are thrilled to ...
Resin made from biomass advances method for manufacturing recyclable wind turbine blades Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the com...
As consumers demand alternatives to fossil fuel, the use of alternative energy sources including wind energy is increasing. With an increase in the use of wind energy a collateral issue of what to do with the large and voluminous wind turbine blades (WTB) has arisen. Currently, there are no...
Physical properties (water sorption (WA), Thickness swelling (TS)) dataset of composites made from recycled wind turbine blades presented. Dataset also presented the influence of resin level, mill screen size and coupling agents on the physical properties of composites (Mamanpush et al., 2019)....
wind turbine recyclingThe amount of composite waste from decommissioned wind turbine blades grows rapidly and recycling solutions should be generated to overcome this environmental challenge. This research aims to further develop a recycling method to recover components of dismantled turbine blades by ...
Glass fiber‐reinforced polymer (GFRP), extensively employed in diverse industries, generates considerable waste, especially from decommissioned wind turbine blades. Our research group has developed a new method of mechanical recovery for GFRP from wind turbine blades. In this study, waste GFRP ...
Physical properties (water sorption (WA), Thickness swelling (TS)) dataset of composites made from recycled wind turbine blades presented. Dataset also presented the influence of resin level, moisture content, mill screen size and density on the physical properties of composites....
The study briefly reviews the materials used by various original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for wind turbine blades. Successively, it provides an overview of the various recycling methods with interest in recovered materials, mechanical and physical properties, which are used, for estimating a ...