Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming Solutions
Various scenarios of end-of-life management of wind turbine blades are reviewed. “Reactive” strategies, designed to deal with already available, ageing turbines, installed in the 2000s, are discussed, among them, maintenance and repair, reuse, refurbishment and recycling. The main results and challe...
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| description | Various scenarios of end-of-life management of wind turbine blades are reviewed. “Reactive” strategies, designed to deal with already available, ageing turbines, installed in the 2000s, are discussed, among them, maintenance and repair, reuse, refurbishment and recycling. The main results and challenges of “pro-active strategies”, designed to ensure recyclability of new generations of wind turbines, are discussed. Among the main directions, the wind turbine blades with thermoplastic and recyclable thermoset composite matrices, as well as wood, bamboo and natural fiber-based composites were reviewed. It is argued that repair and reuse of wind turbine blades, and extension of the blade life has currently a number of advantages over other approaches. While new recyclable materials have been tested in laboratories, or in some cases on small or medium blades, there are remaining technological challenges for their utilization in large wind turbine blades. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-beb238989cb0407499c1f45cf3e99ba22023-12-03T11:54:09ZengMDPI AGMaterials1996-19442021-02-01145112410.3390/ma14051124Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming SolutionsLeon Mishnaevsky0Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, 4000 Roskilde, DenmarkVarious scenarios of end-of-life management of wind turbine blades are reviewed. “Reactive” strategies, designed to deal with already available, ageing turbines, installed in the 2000s, are discussed, among them, maintenance and repair, reuse, refurbishment and recycling. The main results and challenges of “pro-active strategies”, designed to ensure recyclability of new generations of wind turbines, are discussed. Among the main directions, the wind turbine blades with thermoplastic and recyclable thermoset composite matrices, as well as wood, bamboo and natural fiber-based composites were reviewed. It is argued that repair and reuse of wind turbine blades, and extension of the blade life has currently a number of advantages over other approaches. While new recyclable materials have been tested in laboratories, or in some cases on small or medium blades, there are remaining technological challenges for their utilization in large wind turbine blades.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/14/5/1124wind energywind turbine bladescompositesmaintenancedecommissioningrecycling |
| spellingShingle | Leon Mishnaevsky Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming Solutions Materials wind energy wind turbine blades composites maintenance decommissioning recycling |
| title | Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming Solutions |
| title_full | Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming Solutions |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming Solutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming Solutions |
| title_short | Sustainable End-of-Life Management of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview of Current and Coming Solutions |
| title_sort | sustainable end of life management of wind turbine blades overview of current and coming solutions |
| topic | wind energy wind turbine blades composites maintenance decommissioning recycling |
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