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Re-WInd: New project explores sustainable reuse of wind turbine blades
Exciting new US-Ireland triparite research project seeks to find novel sustainable re-use options for end of life wind turbine blades.
The project consortium comprise leading research insititutions in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the USA namely, City University of New York, Georgia Institute of Technology, 晚上福利在线观看 Cork, and Queen鈥檚 University Belfast - with the research team spaning a number of disciplines including: engineering, architecture, geography, sociology, and political science.
The Re-Wind project is a response to a challenge of end-life-life management of non-biodegradable blades found in current wind turbines in a sustainable manner. The project takes an innovative multidisciplinary approach, to compare sustainable end鈥搊f鈥搇ife reuse and recycling strategies for these composite material wind turbine blades.
The UCC principal investigator is Dr Paul Leahy (Energy Engineering), with co-investigators: Dr Ger Mullally (Sociology/CPPU) and Dr Niall Dunphy (CPPU)
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on project commencement
Re-Wind
note: UCC's contribution to Re-Wind is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) as part of a US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership
Cleaner Production Promotion Unit
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