Study on epoxy/glass fiber composites wastes from wind blades industry

• Grant number: 09/16248-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2010
• End date: January 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: Sandro Donnini Mancini
• Grantee: Patrícia Carla Guerrero
• Host Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus Experimental de Sorocaba. Sorocaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project intend to evaluate the recyclability of wastes from the production of eolic blades, usually made of reinforced thermosets (glass fiber/epoxy resin). As thermoset, the common way of polymer recycling via melting (mechanical recycling) is not possible. The purpose of this project is to study this waste pyrolysis, aiming the glass segregation. (AU)