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Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry
Biocomposites have emerged as promising alternative materials for the aviation industry. However, there is a limited body of scientific literature addressing the end-of-life management of biocomposites. This article evaluated different end-of-life technologies for biocomposite recycling in a structu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10304585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37376334 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15122689 |
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author | Ferjan, Špela Jovičić, Milkica Lardiés Miazza, Nora Ligthart, Tom Harvey, Clare Fita, Sergio Mehta, Rajesh Samani, Pouya |
author_facet | Ferjan, Špela Jovičić, Milkica Lardiés Miazza, Nora Ligthart, Tom Harvey, Clare Fita, Sergio Mehta, Rajesh Samani, Pouya |
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description | Biocomposites have emerged as promising alternative materials for the aviation industry. However, there is a limited body of scientific literature addressing the end-of-life management of biocomposites. This article evaluated different end-of-life technologies for biocomposite recycling in a structured, five-step approach applying the innovation funnel principle. First, ten end-of-life (EoL) technologies were compared in terms of their circularity potential and technology readiness levels (TRL). Second, a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) was carried out to find out the top four most promising technologies. Afterwards, experimental tests were conducted at a laboratory scale to evaluate the top three technologies for recycling biocomposites by analysing (1) three types of fibres (basalt, flax, carbon) and (2) two types of resins (bioepoxy and Polyfurfuryl Alcohol (PFA) resins). Subsequently, further experimental tests were performed to identify the top two recycling technologies for the EoL treatment of biocomposite waste from the aviation industry. Finally, the sustainability and economic performance of the top two identified EoL recycling technologies were evaluated through life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA). The experimental results, performed via the LCA and TEA assessments, demonstrated that both solvolysis and pyrolysis are technically, economically, and environmentally viable options for the EoL treatment of biocomposite waste from the aviation industry. |
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spelling | pubmed-103045852023-06-29 Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry Ferjan, Špela Jovičić, Milkica Lardiés Miazza, Nora Ligthart, Tom Harvey, Clare Fita, Sergio Mehta, Rajesh Samani, Pouya Polymers (Basel) Article Biocomposites have emerged as promising alternative materials for the aviation industry. However, there is a limited body of scientific literature addressing the end-of-life management of biocomposites. This article evaluated different end-of-life technologies for biocomposite recycling in a structured, five-step approach applying the innovation funnel principle. First, ten end-of-life (EoL) technologies were compared in terms of their circularity potential and technology readiness levels (TRL). Second, a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) was carried out to find out the top four most promising technologies. Afterwards, experimental tests were conducted at a laboratory scale to evaluate the top three technologies for recycling biocomposites by analysing (1) three types of fibres (basalt, flax, carbon) and (2) two types of resins (bioepoxy and Polyfurfuryl Alcohol (PFA) resins). Subsequently, further experimental tests were performed to identify the top two recycling technologies for the EoL treatment of biocomposite waste from the aviation industry. Finally, the sustainability and economic performance of the top two identified EoL recycling technologies were evaluated through life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA). The experimental results, performed via the LCA and TEA assessments, demonstrated that both solvolysis and pyrolysis are technically, economically, and environmentally viable options for the EoL treatment of biocomposite waste from the aviation industry. MDPI 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10304585/ /pubmed/37376334 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15122689 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ferjan, Špela Jovičić, Milkica Lardiés Miazza, Nora Ligthart, Tom Harvey, Clare Fita, Sergio Mehta, Rajesh Samani, Pouya Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry |
title | Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry |
title_full | Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry |
title_fullStr | Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry |
title_full_unstemmed | Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry |
title_short | Sustainability Assessment of the End-of-Life Technologies for Biocomposite Waste in the Aviation Industry |
title_sort | sustainability assessment of the end-of-life technologies for biocomposite waste in the aviation industry |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10304585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37376334 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15122689 |
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