|
Boeing funds strategic carbon fibre recycling collaboration with the University of Nottingham
10/28/2011 |
|
|
The aircraft manufacturer plans to invest $1,000,000 per year in a strategic research collaboration - an inclusive partnership in which Boeing will collaborate with Nottingham in all its composites recycling activities.
In desert ?aircraft graveyards', where retired planes often go when flight service ends, good parts are removed and sold and many materials are recycled. Increasingly popular strong, light carbon fibre composites (or carbon fibre reinforced plastics) were once too difficult to recycle, so went to landfill.
In the past decade, researchers at Nottingham led by Dr Steve Pickering have developed ways to recycle carbon fibre composites. They have worked with Boeing since 2006. Now Boeing plans to invest $1,000,000 per year in a strategic research collaboration - an inclusive partnership in which Boeing will collaborate with Nottingham in all its composites recycling activities.
Sir Roger Bone, President of Boeing UK, launched this major new collaborative investment in carbon fibre recycling research involving Boeing Commercial Airplanes and The University of Nottingham's Faculty of Engineering when he visited Nottingham on Monday 24 October.
First introduced into military aircraft 30 years ago, carbon fibre composites are stronger and lighter than any other commonly available material. This helps reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions in aircraft making modern passenger planes more efficient and cheaper to fly. Advanced composite materials comprise half the empty weight of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner.
"Boeing wants to be able to recycle composite materials from manufacturing operations to improve product sustainability and to develop more efficient ways of recycling aircraft retired from commercial service," said Sir Roger Bone, President of Boeing UK Ltd.
"The ultimate aim is to insert recycled materials back into the manufacturing process, for instance on the plane in non-structural sustainable interiors applications, or in the tooling we use for manufacture. This work helps us create environmental solutions throughout the lifecycle of Boeing products."
"Aerospace is a priority research area for this University," said Professor Andy Long, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor of Mechanics of Materials and Director of the Institute for Aerospace Technology. "This recognises the sector's potential for growth and our ability to deliver influential world-class research and knowledge transfer to address global issues and challenges.
Our agreement formalizes a long-term working commitment between The University of Nottingham and Boeing. We have been working together for over six years on mutual R&D activities in aircraft recycling as well as novel applications for power electronics. We share the aims of improving environmental performance of aircraft and using materials more sustainably."
In the strategic collaboration on composites recycling Boeing will provide funding of $1,000,000 per year initially for three years, but with the intention to continue with a rolling programme. The collaboration with Boeing will further develop:
• recycling processes
• technology to process recycled fibre into new applications
• and new products using recycled materials, in collaboration with other suppliers.
Boeing was a founding member six years ago of AFRA, the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association. AFRA is a non-profit standards-setting association for the aerospace industry. Nottingham joined two years later, and a significant part of this agreement will involve working with several other AFRA member companies on the very difficult challenge of aircraft interiors recycling.
"Through this work, Boeing and Nottingham intend to develop quality and performance standards for recycled aerospace carbon fibre," said Bill Carberry, Project Manager of Aircraft and Composite Recycling at Boeing and Deputy Director of the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association.
"Our research at Nottingham has been developing recycling processes for carbon fibre composites for over 10 years in projects funded by industry, UK Government and EU," said Dr Steve Pickering. "As well as recycling processes, we are creating applications to reuse recycled material.
"With Nottingham, Boeing is a partner in the ongoing Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded project AFRECAR (Affordable Recycled CARbon fibre). With colleagues Professor Nick Warrior and Professor Ed Lester, and industrial collaborators including Boeing, we are developing high value applications for recycled carbon fibre along with new recycling processes."
|
|
|
|
|
|
主站蜘蛛池模板：
精品av|
国产精品毛片app|
国产精品福利中文字幕|
无码精品一区二区三区超碰|
2020年无码国产精品高清免费|
奇米四色7777中文字幕|
亚洲熟女人|
国精品午夜福利视频|
国产永久免费高清在线观看|
91黄色视频在线观看|
在线不卡中文字幕福利|
欧洲亚洲精品免费二区|
曰本久久久免费黄
|
人妻影音先锋啪啪av资源|
国产偷窥熟妇高潮呻吟|
国产精品乱码一区二区三|
伊人久久大香线焦av综合影院
|
t=&tags=%E5%90%8E%E5%85%A5%E9%AA
|
777奇米四色成人影视色区|
性姿势真人免费视频放|
国产不卡一区不卡二区|
久久久亚洲欧洲日产国码αv|
3344在线观看无码|
亚洲高清中文字幕在线看不卡|
国产成人a在线观看视频免费
|
国产精品自在线拍国产手机版|
精品国产99久久久久久www|
一区二区国产在线|
国产swag在线观看|
99亚洲男女激情在线观看|
亚洲深夜|
人伦中文字幕|
国产成+人+综合+亚洲专|
日本夜爽爽一区二区三区|
日本youjizz|
美国性爱视频|
五月综合激情婷婷六月色窝|
午夜激情福利在线免费看|
国产精品自线在线播放|
亚洲人成网站色7799在线观看|
性色欲情网站|
