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Re-WInd: New project explores sustainable reuse of wind turbine blades

5 Feb 2018

Exciting new US-Ireland triparite research project seeks to find novel sustainable re-use options for end of life wind turbine blades.

The project consortium comprise leading research insititutions in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the USA namely, City 深夜亚洲福利久久 of New York, Georgia Institute of Technology, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, and Queen鈥檚 深夜亚洲福利久久 Belfast - with the research team spaning a number of disciplines including: engineering, architecture, geography, sociology, and political science.

The Re-Wind project is a response to a challenge of end-life-life management of non-biodegradable blades found in current wind turbines in a sustainable manner. The project takes an innovative multidisciplinary approach, to compare sustainable end鈥搊f鈥搇ife reuse and recycling strategies for these composite material wind turbine blades.

The UCC principal investigator is Dr Paul Leahy (Energy Engineering), with co-investigators: Dr Ger Mullally (Sociology/CPPU) and Dr Niall Dunphy (CPPU) 

Further Information

 on project commencement

Re-Wind 

note: UCC's contribution to Re-Wind is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) as part of a US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership