R-LIGHTBIOCOM: New bio-based and sustainable raw materials enabling circular value chains of high performance lightweight biocomposites

R-LIGHTBIOCOM：新型生物基可持续原材料，实现高性能轻质生物复合材料的循环价值链

• 批准号: 10053924
• 金额: $ 36.79万
• 依托单位: GEN 2 CARBON LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10053924
• 关键词: LIGHTBIOCOM; New; bio; based; sustainable

New lightweight High-Performance Composite (HPC) materials and efficient sustainable processing technologies will have an enormous environmental and performance benefit in all sectors of application. However, current sustainable HPC application is limited to large sectors due to their limitations in terms of long processing times, high prices and low recyclability. To overcome these limitations, r-LightBioCom propose a paradigm shift in the way HPC are manufactured and recycled, unlocking sustainable-by-design production of lightweight HPC. Therefore, the project will enable new circular value chains towards r-LightBioCom results, contributing to environmental-related EU goals and reducing the HPC waste generation and the use of non-sustainable fossil resources. To this end, a sustainable catalogue of new advanced biobased and recycled HPC materials will be initially developed with inherent recyclability properties (at least 3 new types of bio-resins, 4 new biomass-derived nanofillers and additives, and 3 families of sustainable fibre-based textile products). To reduce current associated manufacturing costs and high energy consumptions and emissions, efficient processing techniques will be developed (2 new fast curing techniques) combined with recycling technologies for the new catalogue of materials to reduce waste generation and induce circularity. A new open method and related tools (Coupled Ecological Optimisation framework) will promote and standardise holistic sustainable HPC design, modelling and systematic optimisation, leading to continuous sustainable catalogue growth and inclusion of new families of biobased, recyclable lightweight HPC at competitive cost. All results will be validated in 3 use cases at automotive, infrastructure and aeronautic industries with specific business cases, contributing to establishing new resilient, sustainable and innovative value chains in the EU HPC industry, promoting a change of paradigm from linear to circular ones.

新型轻质高性能复合材料（HPC）和高效的可持续加工技术将为所有应用领域带来巨大的环境和性能效益。然而，由于处理时间长、价格高和可回收性低等局限性，目前可持续的高性能计算应用仅限于大型行业。为了克服这些限制，r-LightBioCom 提出了 HPC 制造和回收方式的范式转变，从而实现了轻量级 HPC 的可持续设计生产。因此，该项目将为 r-LightBioCom 成果打造新的循环价值链，为与环境相关的欧盟目标做出贡献，并减少 HPC 废物的产生和不可持续化石资源的使用。为此，将初步开发具有固有可回收特性的新型先进生物基和可回收 HPC 材料的可持续目录（至少 3 种新型生物树脂、4 种新型生物质衍生纳米填料和添加剂，以及 3 个可持续纤维系列）为基础的纺织产品）。为了降低当前相关的制造成本以及高能耗和排放，将开发高效的加工技术（2种新的快速固化技术），与新材料目录的回收技术相结合，以减少废物的产生并促进循环。新的开放方法和相关工具（耦合生态优化框架）将促进和标准化整体可持续 HPC 设计、建模和系统优化，从而实现可持续的目录增长，并以具有竞争力的成本纳入新的生物基、可回收轻量级 HPC 系列。所有结果将在汽车、基础设施和航空行业的 3 个用例以及特定业务案例中得到验证，有助于在欧盟 HPC 行业建立新的弹性、可持续和创新价值链，推动范式从线性向循环的转变。