The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing and Innovation Circular Economy  for Wind Workshop Report

Mitchell L. Rencheck; Matthew Korey; Lillie Ghobrial; Derek Berry; Soydan Ozcan

doi:10.2172/1879228

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing and Innovation Circular Economy for Wind Workshop Report

Mitchell L. Rencheck, Matthew Korey, Lillie Ghobrial, Derek Berry, Soydan Ozcan

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Abstract

Wind turbine blade waste is anticipated to amount to approximately 2.2 million tons or more by 2050 (more than the equivalent weight of 6 empire state buildings). However, no existing recycling technologies for the composites in wind turbines are currently at cost-parity with landfilling. As such, there is little industrial drive to recycle these materials, so they are currently buried. If it were possible to develop a circular economy for wind blades it could directly reduce material feedstock costs for many composites industries, facilitate the tremendous, anticipated growth of the domestic off-shore wind energy sector, and help the U.S. achieve net-zero manufacturing and energy generation. However, to enable circular economies for wind blades, several questions need to be answered.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	United States
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1879228
State	Published - 2021

Keywords

17 WIND ENERGY

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