REWIND

Efficient decommissioning, repurposing and recycling to increase the circularity of end-of-life wind energy systems

Objectives

The aim of REWIND is to develop critical technologies for dismantling wind turbine blades and implementing new methodologies for composites repurposing and recycling to increase their circularity, raising the industrial applications of the end-of-life composites and avoiding the current landfilling or incineration.

Description

REWIND will develop suitable disassembly, quality inspection and characterisation of the composite waste, to decide if composite parts from EoL products should be reused or recycled depending on their value. REWIND will show potential high-value applications for composite end-of-life: repurposing for construction and automotive sector.

New innovative pyrolysis and solvolysis methods for recycling will be developed to reduce the processing temperature and time. The secondary raw materials obtained (sized recycled fiber fabrics and recycled vitrimer matrix from polymerized monomers) will be used to rethink and manufacture a small wind blade root section and composites patches for blades repairing.