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）和高效的可持续加工技术将在所有应用领域带来巨大的环境和性能效益。然而，目前的可持续HPC应用仅限于大型行业，因为它们在处理时间长，价格高和可回收性低方面存在局限性。为了克服这些限制，rLightBioCom提出了HPC制造和回收方式的范式转变，解锁了轻量HPC的可持续设计生产。因此，该项目将为r-LightBioCom成果提供新的循环价值链，为与环境相关的欧盟目标做出贡献，减少HPC废物的产生和不可持续化石资源的使用。为此，最初将开发具有内在可回收性的新型先进生物基和可回收HPC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品）。为了降低当前相关的制造成本以及高能耗和排放，将开发高效的加工技术（2种新的快速固化技术），并结合新材料目录的回收技术，以减少废物产生并促进循环。一种新的开放式方法和相关工具（耦合生态优化框架）将促进和推广整体可持续HPC设计、建模和系统优化，从而实现持续的可持续目录增长，并以具有竞争力的成本纳入新的生物基可回收轻质HPC系列。所有结果将在汽车，基础设施和航空行业的3个用例中进行验证，并提供特定的商业案例，有助于在欧盟HPC行业建立新的弹性，可持续和创新的价值链，促进范式从线性到循环的转变。

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.