The University of Galway is looking for two ENLIGHT partner universities that have the expertise and infrastructure of manufacture composite materials (fibre reinforced thermoset or thermoplastic polymers) and separately the expertise and infrastructure of recycling or repurposing waste fibre reinforced polymers.
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The University of Galway is looking for two ENLIGHT partner universities that have the expertise and infrastructure of manufacture composite materials (fibre reinforced thermoset or thermoplastic polymers) and separately the expertise and infrastructure of recycling or repurposing waste fibre reinforced polymers.
The overall concept is to establish a 3-university consortium, which collectively manage and run student projects (ideally 3rd year engineering students in the summer of each calendar year) in the field of design, manufacture, test, and recycling of small-scale (approximately 10 cm long) composite wind turbine blades, in the application of generating wind energy. While we (in the School of Engineering) have expertise and infrastructure of design and test wind turbine blades, I'm looking for two ENLIGHT partner universities that have the expertise and infrastructure of manufacture composite materials (fibre reinforced thermoset or thermoplastic polymers) and separately the expertise and infrastructure of recycling or repurposing waste fibre reinforced polymers. The overall outline of the project is that: Galway does the design, test, and recycling of wind turbine blades, University 2 does the manufacture of wind turbine blades, and University 3 does the scaling up of wind turbine blades and related manufacturing and demonstration.