Summer Course: large components innovative recycling tecnologies

The course organized by Aitiip Centro Tecnológico together with the University of Zaragoza on recycling technologies is now available.

In these online sessions, those interested can learn about new trends in the recycling of composite materials, as well as about the development of innovative methodologies to separate and reuse high-value components of large composite structures, which can be found in airplanes.

Thus, the knowledge generated in HELACS and other projects related to these lines of research, such as BIZENTE or VIBES, will be shared with the participants in theoretical form. On September 15, a practical session will be held at the Teruel Airport facilities, where visitors will be able to get closer to aircraft recycling in situ.

HELACS

Courses

Course I - Enzymes to resolve end-of-life issues of thermoset composite plastics | Fundación Universitaria Antonio Gargallo (unizar.es)

Course I - Improving Recyclability of Thermoset Composite Materials Through a Greener Recycling Technology | Fundación Universitaria Antonio Gargallo (unizar.es)

 

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Latest News HELACS

  • For aircrafts that are no longer in service, the owner considers the trade-off between direct resale and disassemble & recycled. Besides that, HELACS project (Holistic processes for the cost-effective and sustainable management of End of Life of Aircraft Composite Structures) is focused on the study of the second one of these options.

  • AITIIP Technology Centre leads HELACS, a European project which aims to develop a dual methodology of controlled comprehensive dismantling in order to make possible the classification, recycling and reuse of aircraft parts made of thermoset and thermoplastic composites that have reached their end of life. Annually, the aeronautical industry is depositing more than 40,000 tons of end-of-life composite material waste in landfills. Thanks to the recovery of materials, the technology proposed by HELACS will benefit the change towards an energy efficiency model.

  • You can now download the official HELACS project brochure. A project comes to transform the dismantling process of the aircraft of the future. HELACS employs novel robotics to recycle composite materials of large components. The HELACS process is based on the application of high water pressure that will selectively chop the thermoset parts into a dimension suitable for recycling. In addition, the pyrolysis process is used for the carbonization of the thermoset matrix to reuse the carbon fibers that overcome this chemical decomposition.
This project has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 101007871
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