Project description
Innovative recycling for end-of-life composite waste
The dangers posed by climate change have roused countries and organisations worldwide, initiating a push for cleaner technologies and carbon emission reduction. Today, recycling processes and sustainable production lines provide vital opportunities for a greener future, with substantial demand for innovations in these fields. The EU-funded RECREATE project aims to develop several novel technologies for better and greener reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing of fiber-reinforced composite materials. It will introduce technologies utilising end-of-life complex composite waste as feedstock for new materials and parts for different industrial sectors, setting up the necessary tools and strategies to make these processes efficient and profitable.
Objective
The general objective of the RECREATE project is to develop a set of innovative technologies aimed at exploiting the potential of End-of-Life (EoL) complex composite waste as feedstock for profitable reuse of parts and materials in the manufacturing industry. In the light of this, more specific objectives are:
- to develop and validate in relevant environment (TRL6) novel reuse strategies for large EoL composite parts based on smart recognition and inspection for sorting (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy), high precision dismantling (laser-shock) and repair, temperature-assisted reshaping, design for disassembly based on reversible joints, AI-assisted decision support systems;
- to develop and validate in relevant environment (TRL6) innovative recycling technologies (catalyst-assisted green solvolysis and electrofragmentation) allowing simultaneous recovery of high quality, integer, clean fibers and of an organic resin fraction reusable as coating material, at the very end of the multiple reuse processes of parts;
- to demonstrate at TRL6 the use of smart and green reversible thermoset resins as enabling materials for the realization of the next generation of fiber-reinforced composites with easier repairability and enhanced reusability, facilitating the transition towards recyclable-by-design composites;
- to develop digital tools for the quantitative evaluation of the environmental and economic performance of the proposed technologies (LCA/LCC), as well as their circularity assessment and acceleration;
- to co-design innovative digital learning resources, based on MOOCs, gamification and digital twins of some specialty technologies developed in the project, with easy adoption and high replicability.
The objectives and ambition of RECREATE are fully compliant with the general requirements of the Horizon Europe - Digital, Industry and Space 2021 Work Programme, and with the specific requirements of the call Horizon-CL4-2021-Resilience-01-01.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibers
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesremanufacturing
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
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33100 Tampere
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80686 Munchen
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44470 Carquefou
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265 04 Rio Patras
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48170 Zamudio
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75794 Paris
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38112 Braunschweig
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT
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00185 Roma
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00185 Roma
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74020 MONTEMESOLA
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33600 Pessac
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25876 Schwabstedt
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20100 Milano
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4020 Linz
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1000 Ljubljana
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70037 Ruvo Di Puglia
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65205 Wiesbaden
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6921 Kennelbach
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80035 Nola
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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60329 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
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