Successful closed-loop recycling of thermoset composites

By J. Palmer, O. Ghita, L. Savage, Kenneth E. Evans. 2009

330 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. G. Leeke
2. L. Dandy
3. G. Oliveux
4. Soraia Pimenta
5. Jordan Kalman
6. A. Loppinet-Serani
7. S. Pinho
8. Jihui Wang

In Mechanics of Materials

1. G. Oliveux
2. L. Dandy
3. G. Leeke
4. Kazem Fayazbakhsh
5. Soraia Pimenta
6. S. Pinho
7. L. Lessard
8. Pedro P. Camanho

Citations in the corpus

• Near- and supercritical solvolysis of carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRPs) for recycling carbon fibers as a valuable resource: State of the art (2012, background): “recovered fibres are significantly degraded; [8] their architectures are unstructured, coarse and non-consistent [32] and hence, the possibilities for their re-manufacturing are limited.”
• Composite Material Recycling Technology—State-of-the-Art and Sustainable Development for the 2020s (2020, neutral): “Effective reuse of recyclates is based on particle size as described in literature [80,81].”
• Recycling and reuse of composite materials for wind turbine blades: An overview (2019, methodology): “Palmer et al.(17) investigated closed-loop recycling of thermoset composite through grinding and reincorporation, and used recycled GFRP as a replacement for virgin reinforced materials in new thermoset composites.”
• Current status of recycling of fibre reinforced polymers: Review of technologies, reuse and resulting properties (2015, background): “Recycled glass fibres (rGFs) can also be reused as fillers in thermoplastics or short fibres in BMC, mainly [3,4,6,7,13].”
• Recycling of fiberglass wind turbine blades into reinforced filaments for use in Additive Manufacturing (2019, background): “Mechanical grinding is the only recycling technique, which has found its way to industrial application [9].”
• Recycling carbon fibre reinforced polymers for structural applications: technology review and market outlook. (2011, background): “…recycling involves breaking–down the composite by shredding, crushing, milling, or other similar mechanical process; the resulting scrap pieces can then be segregated by sieving into powdered products (rich in resin) and fibrous products (rich in fibres) (Palmer et al. 2009, Pickering 2006).”
• Chemical recycling of glass fibre reinforced composites using subcritical water (2012, background): “Material recycling involves grinding of glass fibre reinforced composites to a recyclate that can be used as fillers or partial reinforcement in other product but the incorporation rate is limited [1,2].”