The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the largest public research organization in Spain, the fourth largest public research organization in the European Union and the sixth largest in the world. The CSIC is composed of 121 institutes that carry out research, innovation and training in all fields of knowledge.
The Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros (ICTP) focuses on the scientific and technological advancement of polymer materials through research and development. The Polymer Composite Group (PCG) is an internationally recognized group in the field of composite materials. The group’s activity is twofold: on the one hand, it develops the fundamental science that applies the tetrahedron of materials to composites: processing, structure, properties and performance. On the other hand, the group develops applied research with a strong interest in knowledge and technology transfer to the industrial sectors.
CSIC has developed at laboratory scale a novel thermoplastic liquid resin, called Akelite, which allows the production of high quality composites under a controlled and safe polymerisation reaction at medium temperatures and the recovery of both polymer and fibres under good conditions.
The objective of the ECORES WIND project is to improve the current Akelite formulation to obtain key properties such as a higher glass transition temperature, currently at 100 C, to finely control the reactivity, and ultimately to enable the disassembly of wind turbine blades, thus contributing to sustainable lifecycle management.
Learn more about ICTP here: http://www.ictp.csic.es/
