Descrizione del progetto
Tecnologia d’avanguardia per i materiali verdi
Cambiamenti climatici, inquinamento da microplastiche e carenze di materie prime richiedono una trasformazione radicale del sistema economico esistente. La sostituzione delle risorse di combustibile fossile e dei materiali persistenti con energia rinnovabile e materiali biodegradabili, nonché lo sviluppo di tecnologia ecocompatibili, stanno emergendo come alternative più sostenibili. Il progetto BreadCell, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà una tecnologia d’avanguardia per produrre materiali leggeri porosi a bassa densità ampiamente usati nelle industrie e che consistono principalmente in polimeri non degradabili. La tecnologia include un processo di schiumatura che crea prodotti da materie prime nuove ed esistenti dalla poltiglia e li converte in compositi ad alto valore, ad assorbimento di energia e leggeri. La fabbricazione di prodotti sostenibili e sicuri sarà garantita dal principio di sicurezza sin dalla progettazione che guiderà l’intera catena del processo.
Obiettivo
The major challenge to reduce consequences of climate change, microplastic pollution and raw material shortages is to convert our economic system. We need to replace fossil-based resources by renewable ones, replace persistent materials by biodegradables while developing and employing environmentally friendly processing technologies to create safe products with minimum impact on the environment. A real impact on economy, society and ecology is only generated if the materials, processes and products to be replaced are in large scale. In BreadCell, we develop a radically new technology to produce porous lightweight low-density materials which are currently used in large scale industries and mainly consist of synthetic non-degradable polymers. BreadCell technology comprises a foaming process to create products relying on existing and new raw materials from pulping (cellulose, xylan), and to convert them to high value, lightweight, energy-absorbing and load-transferring composites such as in sports and safety components of cars. The whole process chain will be guided by safe-by-design principles to ensure the production of sustainable and inherently safe products. Today, the innovation capacity of European scientists and industry in the area of renewable materials makes them already the leading global players in the field. We will provide a scalable technology that will further support the European technological leadership in the area by cross-fertilization of different fields (pulp and paper, biotechnology, polymer technology, toxicity) while addressing needs of future materials.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibers
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecology
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
412 96 GOTEBORG
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