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Recycling of Mechanically Ground Wind Turbine Blades as Filler in Geopolymer Composite

This paper concerns the recycling of waste material from wind turbine blades. The aim of the research was to determine the possibility of using ground waste material derived from the exploited structures of wind turbines as a filler in geopolymer composites. In order to determine the potential of su...

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Autores principales: Pławecka, Kinga, Przybyła, Jakub, Korniejenko, Kinga, Lin, Wei-Ting, Cheng, An, Łach, Michał
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8585437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34772064
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14216539
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author Pławecka, Kinga
Przybyła, Jakub
Korniejenko, Kinga
Lin, Wei-Ting
Cheng, An
Łach, Michał
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Przybyła, Jakub
Korniejenko, Kinga
Lin, Wei-Ting
Cheng, An
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description This paper concerns the recycling of waste material from wind turbine blades. The aim of the research was to determine the possibility of using ground waste material derived from the exploited structures of wind turbines as a filler in geopolymer composites. In order to determine the potential of such a solution, tests were carried out on three different fractions originating from the ground blades of wind turbines, including an analysis of the morphology and chemical composition of particles using SEM and an EDS detector, the analysis of organic and inorganic matter content and tests for multivariate geopolymer composites with the addition of waste material. The compression and flexural strength, density and absorbability tests, among others, were carried out. The composite material made of the geopolymer matrix contained the filler at the level of 5%, 15% and 30% of dry mass. The addition of the filler showed a tendency to decrease the properties of the obtained geopolymer composite. However, it was possible to obtain materials that did not significantly differ in properties from the re-reference sample for the filler content of 5% and 15% of dry mass. As a result of the research, it was found that waste materials from the utilization of used wind power plants can become fillers in geopolymer composites. It was also found that it is possible to increase the strength of the obtained material by lowering the porosity.
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spelling pubmed-85854372021-11-12 Recycling of Mechanically Ground Wind Turbine Blades as Filler in Geopolymer Composite Pławecka, Kinga Przybyła, Jakub Korniejenko, Kinga Lin, Wei-Ting Cheng, An Łach, Michał Materials (Basel) Article This paper concerns the recycling of waste material from wind turbine blades. The aim of the research was to determine the possibility of using ground waste material derived from the exploited structures of wind turbines as a filler in geopolymer composites. In order to determine the potential of such a solution, tests were carried out on three different fractions originating from the ground blades of wind turbines, including an analysis of the morphology and chemical composition of particles using SEM and an EDS detector, the analysis of organic and inorganic matter content and tests for multivariate geopolymer composites with the addition of waste material. The compression and flexural strength, density and absorbability tests, among others, were carried out. The composite material made of the geopolymer matrix contained the filler at the level of 5%, 15% and 30% of dry mass. The addition of the filler showed a tendency to decrease the properties of the obtained geopolymer composite. However, it was possible to obtain materials that did not significantly differ in properties from the re-reference sample for the filler content of 5% and 15% of dry mass. As a result of the research, it was found that waste materials from the utilization of used wind power plants can become fillers in geopolymer composites. It was also found that it is possible to increase the strength of the obtained material by lowering the porosity. MDPI 2021-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8585437/ /pubmed/34772064 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14216539 Text en © 2021 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/).
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title_short Recycling of Mechanically Ground Wind Turbine Blades as Filler in Geopolymer Composite
title_sort recycling of mechanically ground wind turbine blades as filler in geopolymer composite
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8585437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34772064
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14216539
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