FibreLoop: Closing the Loop on Automotive Carbon Fibre Prepreg (UK/USA)

FibreLoop：关闭汽车碳纤维预浸料的循环（英国/美国）

• 批准号: 105795
• 金额: $ 34.71万
• 依托单位: NETCOMPOSITES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105795
• 关键词: FibreLoop; Closing; Loop; Automotive; Carbon

Our vision is to upcycle waste carbon fibre into high-performance injection moulding pellets.Currently, waste carbon fibre from weaving and processing has little value as there are few viable methods to re-use the materials and to utilise the still significant properties that remain in the fibres. At the same time a potentially huge benefactor of carbon fibre technology, the automotive industry, cannot viably use it due to the high cost of the material and the techniques used to mould it.Therefore we will utilise the reclamation techniques developed by Vartega Inc and combine it with the novel pellet manufacturing technique of Coventive Composites to produce a high volume, high-performance material with an attractive cost/performance profile for automotive applications.This will reduce the carbon fibre scrap waste stream and low-cost recycled carbon fibre will be utilized in vehicle light-weighting applications to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions.The innovation within this project is in the chemical process to extract the carbon fibres from resin prepregs and in the use of discontinuous fibres for a continuous pultrusion process to make pellets. Combined, these two innovations will result in a rare case of waste materials being utilised to create a high-performance material.

我们的愿景是将废弃碳纤维升级为高性能的注塑成型颗粒。目前，来自编织和加工的废弃碳纤维几乎没有价值，因为几乎没有可行的方法来重新使用这些材料，并利用纤维中仍然存在的重要特性。与此同时，碳纤维技术的潜在巨大受益者汽车工业由于材料和用于成型的技术的高成本而无法可行地使用它。因此，我们将利用Vartega Inc.开发的回收技术，并将其与Coventive Composites的新型颗粒制造技术联合收割机相结合，这将减少碳纤维废料流，低成本的再生碳纤维将用于汽车轻型化，该项目的创新之处在于从树脂浆料中提取碳纤维的化学工艺，以及使用不连续纤维进行连续制浆工艺，小球结合这两项创新，将导致一种罕见的情况下，废料被用来创造一种高性能材料。