EURECOMP

Recycling Thermoset Composites of the SST

 Coordinatore PLASTIC OMNIUM AUTO EXTERIEUR SERVICES SAS 

 Organization address address: AVENUE JULES CARTERET 19
city: LYON
postcode: 69007

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Marie-Laure
Cognome: Spaak
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 4 74 40 60 40
Fax: +33 4 74 40 65 65

 Nazionalità Coordinatore France [FR]
 Totale costo 2˙549˙232 €
 EC contributo 1˙974˙793 €
 Programma FP7-TRANSPORT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics)
 Code Call FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1
 Funding Scheme CP-FP
 Anno di inizio 2009
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2009-05-01   -   2012-07-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    PLASTIC OMNIUM AUTO EXTERIEUR SERVICES SAS

 Organization address address: AVENUE JULES CARTERET 19
city: LYON
postcode: 69007

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Marie-Laure
Cognome: Spaak
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 4 74 40 60 40
Fax: +33 4 74 40 65 65

FR (LYON) coordinator 220˙520.00
2    ASSOCIATION DE GESTION DE L INSTITUT CATHOLIQUE D ARTS ET METIERS DE NANTES

 Organization address address: AVENUE DU CHAMP DE MANOEUVRES 35
city: CARQUEFOU
postcode: 44470

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Jerome
Cognome: Soto
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 2 40 52 40 19
Fax: +33 2 40 52 40 99

FR (CARQUEFOU) participant 352˙594.00
3    SACMO SA

 Organization address address: QUAI EMILE PARAF 41
city: COUERON
postcode: 44220

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Mathieu
Cognome: Beaulieu
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 240867819
Fax: +33 2 40 86 15 53

FR (COUERON) participant 312˙397.00
4    FUNDACION GAIKER

 Organization address address: Parque Tecnologico de Zamudio, Edificio 202
city: ZAMUDIO
postcode: 48170

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Francisco
Cognome: García
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 94 6002323
Fax: +34 94 6002324

ES (ZAMUDIO) participant 256˙700.00
5    THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

 Organization address address: Northcote House, The Queen's Drive
city: EXETER
postcode: EX4 4QJ

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Enda
Cognome: Clarke
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1392 263744
Fax: +44 1392 263686

UK (EXETER) participant 192˙209.00
6    UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

 Organization address address: TYNDALL AVENUE SENATE HOUSE
city: BRISTOL
postcode: BS8 1TH

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Mike
Cognome: Hobbs
Email: send email
Telefono: -9288390
Fax: -9250973

UK (BRISTOL) participant 144˙680.00
7    COMPOSITEC

 Organization address city: LE BOURGET DU LAC
postcode: 73374

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Alain
Cognome: Parisse
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 4 79 26 42 42
Fax: +33 4 79 26 42 43

FR (LE BOURGET DU LAC) participant 139˙312.00
8    UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

 Organization address address: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL PARK, PLASSEY
city: LIMERICK
postcode: -

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Martin
Cognome: Buggy
Email: send email
Telefono: +353 61 202503
Fax: +353 61 338172

IE (LIMERICK) participant 85˙912.00
9    EUROPEAN COMPOSITE RECYCLING SERVICES COMPANY SCRL

 Organization address address: avenue de Cortenbergh 66 4
city: Bruxelles
postcode: 1000

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Hans
Cognome: Boon
Email: send email
Telefono: +32 (0)2 739 63 80
Fax: +32 (0)2 732 42 18

BE (Bruxelles) participant 82˙588.00
10    THE BRITISH PLASTICS FEDERATION LBG

 Organization address address: RIVINGTON STREET 6 BATH PLACE
city: LONDON
postcode: EC2A 3JE

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Alan
Cognome: Davey
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 207 457 5002
Fax: +44 20 7457 5045

UK (LONDON) participant 65˙356.00
11    URIARTE SAFYBOX SA

 Organization address address: CALLE GARAIOLTZA 162
city: LEZAMA
postcode: 48196

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Ander
Cognome: Uriarte
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 94 455 40 04
Fax: +34 94 455 65 63

ES (LEZAMA) participant 61˙500.00
12    VOLVO TECHNOLOGY AB

 Organization address address: "GOTAVERKSGATAN 10, M1.7"
city: GOETEBORG
postcode: 40508

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Maria
Cognome: Walenius Henriksson
Email: send email
Telefono: +46.31.322.99.12
Fax: +46.31.54.61.88

SE (GOETEBORG) participant 45˙025.00
13    JIANGYIN XIE TONG AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES CO LTD

 Organization address address: SHUANGJING VILLAGE
city: JIANGYIN CITY
postcode: 214404

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: -
Cognome: Qian Dehong
Email: send email
Telefono: 0510-6592961
Fax: 0510-6583696

CN (JIANGYIN CITY) participant 16˙000.00

Mappa


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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The goal of this project is to set up a new route to recycle composites, which will decrease the cost of production waste disposal by 50%. The whole composites sector is now aware of the environmental rules about wastes from composites production (directive on End-of-life Vehicles 2000/53/EC or directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) which apply to their industry. The routes currently available are expensive and do not give the best use of the wastes, since they are mainly burnt. The heat generated by the combustion process, and the ashes in cement furnaces, are the main, low value, returns. End products given by grinding reused in resins and polymers usually give bad quality products. The consortium believes that it is possible to get a better route if the organic phase is converted to ‘small’ molecules which can be used by the chemical industry and if the mineral phases can be used again in composites. The community wants to define the best conditions in order to obtain a physico-chemical (solvolysis) separation of the different components of the composite and to get the best commercial added value from the end products. In addition, to improve the general standard of competitiveness of the European composite community by reducing the waste management cost, the process will help the composite industry to comply with European regulations.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Some plastic or polymer-based composite materials are not easily recycled. Scientists proved the technical feasibility of a new process to retrieve fibres and chemicals from old boats and cars.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Environmental legislation requires industry to recycle production waste and end-of-life products rather than disposing of them in landfills. The European composites industry has been actively seeking ways to meet requirements for doing this. Composites consisting of two or more materials often take the form of a resin matrix reinforced by fibres.

Prior to the EU-funded project 'Recycling thermoset composites of the SST' (Eurecomp), there was no satisfactory treatment solution for so-called thermoset composites that cannot be melted once they set into cross-linked three-dimensional (3D) form. Burning is basically a disposal rather than a recycling route, yielding heat but generating polluting emissions. Mechanical breakdown leads to the recovery of only low-value reinforcements. Scientists initiated Eurecomp to develop recycling technology to recover from the surface transport industry products of the highest possible commercial value for sustainable surface transport (SST).

The Eurecomp team identified production waste, end-of-life boats and vehicles to be the main sources of composite waste in Europe. Researchers adapted the physicochemical separation and recovery process called solvolysis. They built a laboratory prototype solvolysis reactor, identified main process parameters of interest, and set to work to identify the range of parameters leading to the best recovery of desired products.

Preliminary results enabled identification of recovered components as well as testing of their properties to determine whether or not interesting materials were present and if they could be reused. During the second phase of the project, a large-scale prototype reactor was built. Solvolysis trials were initiated using parameters defined in preliminary tests and modified according to need with the new reactor. Scientists successfully recovered mineral fibres to be reused as reinforcement in new composites and small molecules from the organic phase (polymer matrix) to be used by the chemical industry. A life-cycle assessment (LCA) highlighted areas for optimisation to achieve economically feasible industrial upscaling.

Eurecomp demonstrated the technical feasibility of using state-of-the-art solvolysis to obtain useful fibres and chemicals from thermoset composite waste. Commercialisation should have important impact on costs for both the composites industry and consumers of related products, as well as for the environment.

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