New bio-based and sustainable raw materials enabling circular value chains of high performance lightweight biocomposites

新型轻质高性能复合材料（HPC）材料和高效可持续的加工技术将在所有应用领域具有巨大的环境和性能效益。然而，由于加工时间长、价格高、可回收性低的限制，目前可持续的高性能计算应用仅限于大型行业。为了克服这些限制，rLightBioCom公司提出了一种高性能计算制造和回收方式的范式转变，解锁了轻量化高性能计算的可持续设计生产。因此，该项目将为r-LightBioCom的成果提供新的循环价值链，有助于实现与环境相关的欧盟目标，减少高性能计算废物的产生和不可持续的化石资源的使用。为此目的，将首先开发具有固有可回收特性的新型先进生物基和可回收高性能聚乙烯材料的可持续目录（至少3种新型生物树脂，4种新型生物质衍生纳米填料和添加剂，以及3种可持续纤维基纺织产品）。为了降低当前相关的制造成本和高能耗和排放，将开发有效的加工技术（两种新的快速固化技术）与新材料目录的回收技术相结合，以减少废物产生并诱导循环。一种新的开放方法和相关工具（耦合生态优化框架）将促进和标准化整体可持续HPC设计，建模和系统优化，导致持续可持续的目录增长，并以具有竞争力的成本纳入新的生物基，可回收的轻质HPC家族。所有结果将在汽车、基础设施和航空工业的3个具体商业案例中进行验证，有助于在欧盟高性能计算行业建立新的弹性、可持续和创新的价值链，促进从线性模式到循环模式的转变。

New lightweight High-Performance Composite (HPC) materials and efficient sustainable processing technologies will have an enormous environmental and performance benefit in all sectors of application. However, current sustainable HPC application is limited to large sectors due to their limitations in terms of long processing times, high prices and low recyclability. To overcome these limitations, rLightBioCom propose a paradigm shift in the way HPC are manufactured and recycled, unlocking sustainable-by-design production of lightweight HPC. Therefore, the project will enable new circular value chains towards r-LightBioCom results, contributing to environmental-related EU goals and reducing the HPC waste generation and the use of non-sustainable fossil resources. To this end, a sustainable catalogue of new advanced biobased and recycled HPC materials will be initially developed with inherent recyclability properties (at least 3 new types of bio-resins, 4 new biomass-derived nanofillers and additives, and 3 families of sustainable fibre-based textile products). To reduce current associated manufacturing costs and high energy consumptions and emissions, efficient processing techniques will be developed (2 new fast curing techniques) combined with recycling technologies for the new catalogue of materials to reduce waste generation and induce circularity. A new open method and related tools (Coupled Ecological Optimisation framework) will promote and standardise holistic sustainable HPC design, modelling and systematic optimisation, leading to continuous sustainable catalogue growth and inclusion of new families of biobased, recyclable lightweight HPC at competitive cost. All results will be validated in 3 use cases at automotive, infrastructure and aeronautic industries with specific business cases, contributing to establishing new resilient, sustainable and innovative value chains in the EU HPC industry, promoting a change of paradigm from linear to circular ones.