An assessment of financial viability of recycled carbon fibre in automotive applications
By Fanran Meng, J. McKechnie, S. Pickering. Composites. Part A, Applied science and manufacturing, 2018
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Carbon fibre (CF) recycling has been demonstrated to achieve reductions in environmental impacts compared to virgin CF production, but there is limited understanding of the financial viability of recycling and reutilisation of recycled CF (rCF). In this work, cost analysis and identification of market opportunities for rCF are performed by evaluating the cost of recycling, composite manufacture, and applications in automotive industry. Cost impacts of using rCF as a substitute for conventional materials and competitor lightweight materials are assessed over the full life cycle, including in-use implications. Recovery of CF can be achieved at $5/kg and less across a wide range of process parameters, approximately 15% of the cost of producing virgin carbon fibre. The life cycle cost results show that rCF composites, especially aligned rCF composites, give substantial cost reductions relative to virgin CF composites and even steel and aluminium.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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- Progress of novel techniques for lightweight automobile applications through innovative eco-friendly composite materials: A review (2020, methodology): “Meng et al.106 described the effective method to reduce energy consumption using lightweight vehicle for the purpose of the transport sector and provided a detailed study of recycled carbon fiber which can be implemented for various automobile applications.”