@article{4b64ccac45b94f3f8c778018786e9ddb,
title = "Towards a Circular Economy in the Aviation Sector Using Eco-Composites for Interior and Secondary Structures. Results and Recommendations from the EU/China Project ECO-COMPASS",
abstract = "Fiber reinforced polymers play a crucial role as enablers of lightweight and high performing structures to increase efficiency in aviation. However, the ever-increasing awareness for the environmental impacts has led to a growing interest in bio-based and recycled {\textquoteleft}eco-composites{\textquoteright} as substitutes for the conventional synthetic constituents. Recently, the international collaboration of Chinese and European partners in the ECO-COMPASS project provided an assessment of different eco-materials and technologies for their potential application in aircraft interior and secondary composite structures. This project summary reports the main findings of the ECO-COMPASS project and gives an outlook to the next steps necessary for introducing eco-composites as an alternative solution to fulfill the CLEAN SKY target.",
keywords = "Aviation, Bio-based, Bio-composite, China, ECO-COMPASS, Eco-composite, Europe, Interior, International collaboration, Life cycle assessment, Natural fiber, Secondary structure",
author = "Jens Bachmann and Xiaosu Yi and Konstantinos Tserpes and Carmen Sguazzo and Barbu, {Lucia Gratiela} and Barbara Tse and Constantinos Soutis and Eric Ram{\'o}n and Hector Linuesa and St{\'e}phane Bechtel",
note = "Funding Information: Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 690638 and the Ministry for Industry and Information of the People{\textquoteright}s Republic of China under grant agreement No [2016]92. Funding Information: As an example, today the pyrolysis route is the most matured method for the recycling of carbon fibers from CFRP waste. However, as the preceding step of size reduction to a length of usually much less than 100 mm, the recycled carbon fibers (rCF) are in fact down-cycled to a product with lower value compared to virgin carbon fibers (vCF). A possible step to improve the value of such a material is to convert them into continuous forms of reinforcements, so that their good mechanical properties can be optimally exploited despite a limited fiber length. Delightfully after the conclusion of ECO-COMPASS, a follow-up research work on improved recovering of carbon fiber is in progress under more mild conditions in the GRACE project (Global Recycling And re-manufacturing of Composites for a circular Economy (GRACE). Bilateral Collaboration Project co-funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and UKRI-EPSRC of United Kingdom, under Grand No. 5181101686, 2018). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.",
year = "2021",
month = may,
day = "5",
doi = "10.3390/aerospace8050131",
language = "English",
volume = "8",
journal = "Aerospace",
issn = "2226-4310",
publisher = "MDPI",
number = "5",
}
