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NewsBrio 3 | Environmental Evaluation

WordGAIpress 21/07/2017 01/08/2017News

Several life cycle analyses have been carried out in order to identify the best environmental end-of-life scenarios, advantages and disadvantages of using recycled material from WT blades in other processes to obtain concrete products and multilayer panels. It has been supposed that the WT blades materials come from a hypothetical…

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NewsBrio 3 | Demonstrators Manufacturing

WordGAIpress 21/07/2017 21/07/2017News

Mechanical recycling for recovering concentrates of inorganic fibers and other materials from end-of-life rotor blades comprises several operations (optimised in BRIO project): pre-crushing, coarse shredding, grinding and separation stages by means of a combination of different technologies (magnetic systems, screens or automatic sensor-based sorting lines). From previous actions it is…

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NewsBrio 3 | LIFE-BRIO Project

WordGAIpress 21/07/2017 21/07/2017News

LIFE+ BRIO aims to demonstrate from a life cycle perspective an innovative and sustainable methodology for end-of-life wind turbine (WT) blades management and recycling. The project, led by IBERDROLA Ingeniería y Construcción and participated by the technological centres GAIKER-IK4 and TECNALIA Research & Innovation, has successfully concluded at the end…

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Workshop | Circular economy in the wind energy sector

WordGAIpress 15/05/2017 07/09/2017News

Workshop “Circular economy in the wind energy sector”
The last 10th of May we participated in the workshop “Circular economy in the wind energy sector” in Madrid

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Development of multilayer panels prototypes

WordGAIpress 03/05/2017 03/05/2017News

Development of multilayer panels prototypes
Development of multilayer panels prototypes based on recycled materials from mechanical recycling of end-of-life rotor blades

Demonstrative cement based products development including recycled fibres from WT blades

WordGAIpress 14/03/2017 14/03/2017News

Demonstrative cement based products development including recycled fibres from WT blades

BRIO consortium has manufactured at industrial scale 3 types of precast cement concrete products: safety barriers, manhole modules and blocks. Those products are made of precast concretes with different workabilities and reinforcement. The formulations include Portland cement, natural limestone aggregate, minor amounts of chemical additives and a low water/cement ratio to allow a quick mould removal. Recovered fibres obtained after mechanical treatment of WT blades waste were used as reinforcing fibres. Manufacturing processes remain unaltered and no extra energy for mixing or compacting was demanded.

Moreover manhole modules with recycled fibres have been mechanically tested, showing higher crushing strength than standard product. Safety barriers with recycled fibres have been installed in a public motorway near Lumbreras (La Rioja) and concrete blocks will be used for a retaining wall soon.

BRIO Workshop

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BRIO Workshop organization (Composites Wastes and Circular Economy)

May 2017

ATHENS 2017

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ATHENS 2017
5th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management

21-24 June 2017 | Athens, Greece

NewsBrio 2 | LIFE-BRIO Project

WordGAIpress 21/12/2016 21/12/2016News

BRIO is an initiative whose objective is to develop a new sustainable model for the management and recycling of end-of-life wind turbine rotor blades. The project is led by IBERDROLA Ingeniería y Construcción and participated by the technological centres GAIKER-IK4 and TECNALIA Research & Innovation. The recycling of these large…

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NewsBrio 2 | LIFE-BRIO Lastest Developments

WordGAIpress 21/12/2016 22/12/2016News

Mechanical Recycling Process of Rotor Blades During the last period of the project a mechanical recycling process of end-of-life rotor blades was demonstrated at pilot scale. The proposed solution would be industrially feasible and it has consisted of a pretreatment of blades (cutting down and coarse shredding) followed by conditioning…

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