New Wind Turbine Blade Recycling Method
Why can’t we recycle wind turbine blades as easily as we recycle plastic bottles? In this video (part 3 of my series on wind turbine blade end of life uses), I talk about why wind turbine blades are so hard to recycle (why we see so many going to landfill currently), and I talk with researcher Ryan Ginder about the process he is developing that will allow fibreglass from wind turbine blades and other composite products to be recycled to a high-value material.
Other wind turbine blade end of life videos:
The Great Waste Debate: Wind Energy vs. Coal and Garbage • Wind Turbine End of Life Waste
Wind Turbine Blades into the Circular Economy: Heloisa Lemmertz Interview
• Wind Turbine Blade Reuse Options - Ask an ...
You can see more of what Ryan is up to on the UTK website and LinkedIn:
https://mabe.utk.edu/people/ryan-ginder/
/ ryanginder
Read more about the recycling process:
https://mabe.utk.edu/ut-receives-fund...
Ginder, R. S., & Ozcan, S. (2019). Recycling of commercial e-glass reinforced thermoset composites via two temperature step pyrolysis to improve recovered fiber tensile strength and failure strain. Recycling, 4(2), 24.
Available here (open access!):
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-4321/4/2/24
Video editing and animated intro by https://video-gestaltung.de/