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Fives’ thermal solutions lower the environmental footprint of carbon fiber recovery for Curti

Italy Energy | Combustion

Fives has been selected by Curti Costruzioni Meccaniche SpA, an Italian company designing automatic machines for various industrial applications, to support its goal to reduce the environmental footprint of its carbon fiber recovery operation. Fives will supply an ITAS thermal oxidiser, to be installed in a new plant in Emilia-Romagna, to prevent the release of hazardous air pollutants in the atmosphere and enable the recovery of energy.

 

The “Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza” is a remarkable opportunity for Italian companies to launch innovative projects that will have a positive impact on the country’s economy and its environmental footprint.

As part of this program, Curti Costruzioni Meccaniche SpA, Hera, and the Department of Industrial Chemistry of the University of Bologna, entered a partnership to design and test an innovative thermochemical continuous process to recover carbon fibers from end-of-life parts of composite materials.

Fiber reinforced polymer matrix composite materials (FRP) are used in numerous industries including the automotive, aeronautical, naval, railway, and wind energy. As their recovery, recycling and reuse can lead to energy waste and the release of hazardous air pollutants in the atmosphere, one of the challenges of this project is to make the whole process more energy efficient and eco-friendlier.

Indeed, the most proven technology for the recovery of carbon fibre is pyrolysis: a heat treatment process in absence of oxygen in which the resins that give the shape to the composite materials, and whose vapors are considered hazardous air pollutants, can be evaporated.

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