Eco-efficient decommissioning of wind turbine blades through on-site material shredding and separation

Informazioni relative al progetto

EcoBlade

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 778847

DOI

10.3030/778847

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 21 Settembre 2017

Data di avvio 1 Agosto 2017

Data di completamento 31 Luglio 2019

Finanziato da

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Costo totale

€ 1 992 000,00

Contributo UE

€ 1 394 400,00

Coordinato da

FRANDSEN INDUSTRI HOLDING APS
Denmark

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - EcoBlade (Eco-efficient decommissioning of wind turbine blades through on-site material shredding and separation)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2018-08-01 al 2019-07-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

The issue being addressed is the very expensive and environmentally harmful transportation of wind turbine blades that are decommisioned. Instead the decommisioned wind turbine blades are fine cut on site and can be carried away in tip trailers or walking floor trailers (standard systems) requiring much less vehicles and much less time. We can see that we at the present time can fulfill the target in our project EcoBlade in connection with Horizon 2020. It has been proved that there is a large demand for the solution of the problems that are the issue of our project as there is currently no solution for fine cutting turbine blades on site.

It is very important for the society that the material can be recycled in an environmentally optimal way with af very much lower consumption of energy.

The overall objective is that the wind turbine industry can look forward to obtaining a circular economy and reduce road transportation and pollution.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

We are now halfway through the project. We have reached the state defined in the WPs.

We can also see from the information we have got on the markets we have visited that there is another large potential of the plant than the one originally designated.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

We have produced a test unit. The result of the test has been very satisfactory. The original goal of 40 t total weight has not been achieved. Instead we have reached a total weight of 150 t. The challenges because of this have been solved in satisfactory manner. Apart from the original goal of solving af problem for the wind turbine industry, it has been proven to us that we can solve a major waste issue in overseas markets.

Fine cutter test machine