At the progress and review meeting on 11 and 12 September 2023 in Porto, Prof. Böhm and Philipp Johst presented their PV floating demonstrator
The European joint project EuReComp(European recycling and circularity in large composite components) is dedicated to the challenge of developing sustainable solutions for the recycling of fibre-reinforced composite materials used in wind turbines and the aircraft industry. To date, there are no established recycling concepts for these materials and they have yet to be developed. The EuReComp project has been in progress for 18 months.
On 11 and 12 September 2023, both a progress meeting and a review meeting were held in Porto, organised by the project partners involved. Scientists Prof Robert Böhm and M.Eng./M.A. Philipp Johst from the Faculty of Engineering at HTWK-Leipzig also took part in these events.
The current status and initial results of all work packages were presented at the progress meeting. In the subsequent review meeting, two EU representatives evaluated the results and drew conclusions for further project development.
Among other things, HTWK Leipzig was able to present initial results from work package 3 (WP3). Professor Böhm and his research team have developed a PV-floating low-scale demonstrator that uses a repurposed rotor blade segment as a float for a PV-floating system. A field test showed that outsourced rotor blade structures have good floating properties and can therefore serve as suitable floats. In a joint scientific publication with partners from TU Dresden and the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), it was postulated that the conversion of outsourced rotor blade structures can reduce environmental impacts and potentially achieve significant resource savings compared to a reference product of similar quality (further information at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42824-023-00085-7).
ECKDATA Project EuReCOMP
Project duration: 04/2022 - 03/2026
Funding: The collaborative project is funded by the European Union's central funding programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe.
Project coordinator: National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
University partners: Institute of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Engineering TU Dresden, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), University of Patras (Greece)
Industrial partners: Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (aviation supplier), Dallara Automobil (automotive industry, Italy), Anthony, Patrick and Murta Exportacao (wind energy sector, Portugal) and IRES (life cycle assessment, Belgium)
Research institute: Kunststoff-Zentrum in Leipzig gGmbH
