Sustainable Composite Materials for Wind Turbine Blades Seminar 6 September 2021

Virtual research seminar on sustainable composite materials for wind blades, jointly organised by the Bristol Composites Institute and the ORE Catapult.

The Wind Blade Research Hub (WBRH) is a five-year research partnership between the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and the University of Bristol. The overarching objective of the WBRH is to support and fund wind turbine blade research that will increase the environmental and financial sustainability of wind energy. The research outcomes will accelerate the uptake of new technologies and advance future offshore wind blade design and manufacture.

Introduction and Industry Perspective
0:00:09 Professor Paul Weaver (Bristol Composites Institute) – Welcome and introduction
0:06:11 Dr Steve Wyatt (ORE Catapult) – Introduction to the sustainability challenge for wind turbine blades
0:13:54 Dr Mie Elholm Birkbak (Vestas) – CeTeC project: Development of a new sustainable epoxy system
0:30:07 Harald Stecher (Siemens Gamesa) – SGRE Wind Blades and Sustainability

1st Technical Session, chaired by Professor Paul Weaver (Bristol Composites Institute)
00:47:44 Professor Steve Eichhorn (Bristol Composites Institute) – From Micro to Nano and Back Again: Natural Cellulosic Fibre Composites
01:09:08 Dr Maurice Collins (University of Limerick) – Development of lignin fibres for Energy
01:25:22 Dr Dimitrios Mamalis (ORE Catapult) – Alternative hybrid composites: A novel fibre metal laminate based on thermoplastic resin
01:38:15 Q&A for speakers

01:45:16 2nd Technical Session, chaired by Dr Mark Forrest (ORE Catapult)
01:45:55 Jenny Banks (National Composites Centre) – SusWIND: The future sustainability of wind turbine blades
02:02:20 Dr Darshil Shah (University of Cambridge) – Designing biocomposite blades: progress and challenges
02:18:59 Professor Ian Hamerton (Bristol Composites Institute) – The impact of viscoelasticity on wind turbine blade leading edge protection: Improving lifetime prediction
02:37:12 Tomas Flanagan (EIRE composites) – Manufacture and testing of large composite structures
02:54:27 Q&A for speakers

02:57:45 Panel Discussion: Industry perspective on the challenges and solutions
Chaired by Professor Steve Eichhorn (Bristol Composites Institute)
Lorna Bennet (ORE Catapult)
Dr Pierre Stephan (EDF)
Dr Mie Elholm Birkbak (Vestas)

Find out more about the Wind Blade Research Hub: https://ore.catapult.org.uk/what-we-d...