Affordable Recycled Carbon Fibres (AFRECAR)

AFRECAR（可负担得起的碳纤维）项目建立在诺丁汉大学在碳纤维编织领域的早期研究基础上。最近的一个项目是HIRECAR，该项目使用回收的碳纤维开发了复合材料模塑化合物，用于汽车工业。现在已经出现了从复合材料中回收碳纤维的商业工艺，但有两个问题需要解决：如何处理回收的碳纤维以生产出具有最佳结构性能的新产品;如何改进现有的回收工艺，从用于将碳纤维粘合在复合材料中的聚合物树脂中回收有用的产品？AFRECAR旨在通过开发基于回收碳纤维的高级结构复合材料来关注这两个问题，用于航空航天和汽车工业。它有两个主要目标：开发基于再生碳纤维的低成本、高强度复合材料，其纤维含量高于以往的水平。这些材料可用作航空航天和汽车工业中的轻质结构增强材料，用于非关键应用，如座椅、头顶储物柜和飞机上的其他内部特征以及汽车的车身面板。开发和展示更大规模的超临界流体处理技术，以生产高等级的再生碳纤维，并从聚合物树脂中回收有价值的化学品。该项目由技术战略委员会资助。它由诺丁汉大学牵头，其他合作伙伴包括飞机制造商波音公司、福特汽车公司、复合材料供应商先进复合材料集团、纤维加工公司技术纤维产品、碳纤维制造商toho tenax、风力涡轮机制造商维斯塔斯和碳纤维回收领域的领先公司Milled Carbon。

The AFRECAR (Affordable Recycled Carbon Fibres) project builds upon earlier research led by the university of Nottingham in the area of carbon fibre recyling. The most recent project was HIRECAR in which composite moulding compounds were developed using recycled carbon fibre for application in the automotive industry.There are now emerging commercial processes for recycling the carbon fibre from a composite but there are two problems that need solving: How to process the recycled carbon fibre to produce new products that can give the very best structural properties and:How to improve on the existing recycling processes to recover useful products from the polymer resin used to bond the carbon fibres together in the composite?The AFRECAR aims to focus on these two questions by developing high grade structual composite materials based on recycled carbon fibre for both the aerospace and automotive industries. It has two prime objectives: To develop low-cost, high-strength composite materials based on recycled carbon fibre with higher fibre content than has been previously achieved. These can be used as lightweight structural reinforcement in the aerospace and motor industries in non-critical applications such as seats, overhead lockers and other interior features on aircraft and body panels in cars.To develop and demonstrate, at larger scale, the use of supercritical fluid processing to produce high grade recycled carbon fibre and also to recover valuable chemicals from the polymer resin.The £900,000 project is funded by the Technology Strategy board. It is led by the University of Nottingham and the other partners are the aircraft makers Boeing, the Ford Motor Company, composite materials supplier advanced composites group, fibre processing company technical fibre products, carbon fibre manufacturer toho tenax, wind turbine manufacturer Vestas and Milled Carbon, a company leading the way in carbon fibre recycling.