Project description
Turning the tide: sustainable alternatives to synthetic composites
Synthetic composites, comprising carbon or glass fibre, currently pose environmental challenges, with 98 % ending up in landfills and 80 % of raw materials sourced outside Europe. In this context, the EU-funded BioStruct project aims to revolutionise structural applications through advanced bio-composites. Going beyond addressing recycling difficulties and foreign dependency, BioStruct is extending its impact into the realm of boat building. By developing an accurate draping process, creating material models that capture natural variability, and integrating nano-structured, bio-based sensors for load monitoring, the project paves the way for bio-composites in marine construction. This expansion into boat building aligns with its overarching goal of diversifying applications, showcasing a commitment to sustainable practices across industries.
Objective
Currently, the use of bio-composites is limited to less critical applications that do not have significant requirements in terms of mechanical performance. However, the use of synthetic composites made from carbon or glass fibre has several difficulties in terms recycling and in terms of dependence on third countries. About 98% of these synthetic composites still end up in landfills and about 80% of the raw materials are currently manufactured outside of Europe. To improve this situation, the project addresses the challenges of using bio-composites for structural parts and aims to increase the range of applications in which bio-composites can be used. This will be achieved by developing an accurate draping process to control fibre orientation, by creating material models that capture the natural variability of the material and by integrating nano-structured, bio-based sensors for load monitoring. Through the increased accuracy and additional control loops in the manufacturing process the consortium expects to achieve predictable properties and constant quality.
Within the project use cases from wind energy and boat-building will be investigated, aiming at the manufacturing of a full size rotor blade and a ship hull to demonstrate the technical feasibility and achieving TRL7 for the manufacturing technologies. In addition to the end users, the consortium consists of partners from automation, machine building, measurement technology, material manufacturing and simulation software to cover all aspects of the developments. Based on the predicted growth of the bio-composites market, which is expected to increase by a factor of 2.5 by 2030, the consortium expects a market potential of about 100M€ by 2030.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering composites biocomposites
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.1 - Manufacturing Technologies
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01
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4407 Steyr
Austria
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