- Start: 01/11/2020
- End: 31/10/2024
Carbo4Power´s main objective is to develop a new generation of durable, multifunctional, digitalized rotor blades for offshore turbines (WTB & TTB) that will increase their operational performance and durability while reducing cost of energy production, maintenance and their environmental (EoL) impact. The innovative concept is based on the nano-engineered hybrid (multi)materials and their intelligent architectures with the scope to deliver innovative design for both wind and tidal blades. Selected nano-reinforcements will be utilized to control and enhance fracture toughness and mechanical properties at nano, micro and eventually at the macro level both within the layered composite as well as the multifunctional externally applied coating solutions and also to equip other materials with new properties in order to achieve novel functionalities and developed nanocomposite materials with excellent strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios.
AIMEN will lead the manufacturing tasks aimed at the construction of demo WTB module by means of Automated Composite Manufacturing Technologies, by Automated Tape Laying (ATL) and Advanced Infusion (VB/VARTM). Prior to the fabrication of the demo WTB module, AIMEN will assess optimum processing window for Advanced Manufacturing using the novel materials developed during this project will be implemented to the fabrication of demo WTB module.
- Sectors: Offshore wind
- Financing programme: Horizon 2020
- R&D&i: Materials under extreme conditions, Multimaterial systems
- Leader: National Technical University Of Athens
- Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, INEGI, IRT Jules Verne, University of Birmingham, IRES - Innovation in Research and Engineering Solutions, Fundación CIDETEC, SABELLA, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón - ITAINNOVA, SENSE IN, Fraunhofer IFAM, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, CAMBRIDGE NANOMATERIALS TECHNOLOGY LTD, HAYDALE COMPOSITE SOLUTIONS LIMITED, AIDEAS OU, BIONIC SURFACE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, BIOG3D MONOPROSOPI IKE, OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY CATAPULT
- Acronym: Carbo4Power
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://carbo4power.net/
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