Recycling of wind turbine blades through modern recycling technologies: A road to zero waste

MY Khalid, ZU Arif, M Hossain, R Umer - Renewable Energy Focus, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind is a clean, efficient, fastest-growing, renewable energy source, which is extensively
applied for power generation. The expected design lifetime of a wind turbine lies between …

A content review of life cycle assessment of nanomaterials: current practices, challenges, and future prospects

NUM Nizam, MM Hanafiah, KS Woon - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a comprehensive review of 71 previous studies on the life cycle
assessment (LCA) of nanomaterials (NMs) from 2001 to 2020 (19 years). Although various …

Energy and environmental sustainability of waste personal protective equipment (PPE) treatment under COVID-19

X Zhao, JJ Klemeš, F You - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Combating the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the demand for and disposal of personal
protective equipment in the United States. This work proposes a novel waste personal …

Recycling of the glass/carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites: A step towards the circular economy

ZU Arif, MY Khalid, W Ahmed, H Arshad… - Polymer-Plastics …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
There is an urgent need to recycle glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) and carbon fiber-
reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites due to environmental challenges caused by …

Recovery of carbon fiber from prepreg using nitric acid and evaluation of recycled CFRP

T Hanaoka, H Ikematsu, S Takahashi, N Ito… - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the strong demand for high specific strength materials in society, the production
volume of CFRP is rapidly increasing, while the CFRP waste is simultaneously causing …

Digital innovation enabled nanomaterial manufacturing; machine learning strategies and green perspectives

G Konstantopoulos, EP Koumoulos, CA Charitidis - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Machine learning has been an emerging scientific field serving the modern multidisciplinary
needs in the Materials Science and Manufacturing sector. The taxonomy and map** of …

[HTML][HTML] Pin-loaded tensile behavior and failure analysis of CF/PEKK composites under extreme temperature

X Li, S Kumar, DW Hwang, DH Shin, YH Kim - Composites Part A: Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigated pinned-joint bearing strengths and failure behaviors of carbon-fiber-
reinforced polyetherketoneketone (CF/PEKK) composites at different temperatures, with …

Life cycle assessment of a thermal recycling process as an alternative to existing CFRP and GFRP composite wastes management options

S Karuppannan Gopalraj, I Deviatkin, M Horttanainen… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
There are forecasts for the exponential increase in the generation of carbon fibre-reinforced
polymer (CFRP) and glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite wastes containing …

The development of efficient contaminated polymer materials shredding in recycling processes

J Flizikowski, W Kruszelnicka, M Macko - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, a dynamic increase in the number of polymer elements ending their life cycle has
been observed. There are three main ways of dealing with polymer waste: reuse in an …

Techno-economic and environmental sustainability analysis of filament-winding versus pultrusion based glass-fiber composite technologies

R Rasheed, I Anwar, F Tahir, A Rizwan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
In the era of sustainable development, glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites
have made their way into modern engineering, construction, and building sectors due to …