The ValidFloatingPV project of the Faculty of Engineering is developing a large-scale demonstrator for floating solar systems (floating PV) with floating bodies made from disused rotor blade segments.
In the coming decades, wind turbine operators will generate large quantities of fibre composite waste from decommissioned turbines at the end of their permitted service life. To date, there is no sustainable, economic strategy for creating value from these waste streams in the sense of a complete system consisting of a circular economy, waste treatment and suitable recycling technologies. In the EU-funded EuReComp research project, HTWK Leipzig has developed so-called repurpose strategies, the core idea of which is to reuse undamaged or slightly damaged parts of the discarded rotor blades in new applications. These research results will now be validated from January 2025 in the ValidFloatingPV project funded by the Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) to determine their economic viability.
