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Thermoplastic Composite Pipes Could Carry Hydrogen Produced Directly at Floating Wind Farms
Strohm, the developer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with French renewable hydrogen supplier Lhyfe, to collaborate on the transportation solution for hydrogen produced from a floating wind turbine to be integrated with a hydrogen production ...Read more -
Nissan Showcases new CFRP Process That Reduces Moulding Times by up to 80%
Company say the new process cuts moulding times from 3 hours to just two minutes The Japanese automaker says it has created a new way to speed up the development of car parts made from carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) by up to 80%, making it possible to mass-produce strong, lightweight com...Read more -
NREL explores novel manufacturing approach for next-generation wind turbine blades
3D printing of thermoplastic blades enables thermal welding and improves recyclability, offering the potential to reduce turbine blade weight and cost by at least 10%, and production cycle time by 15%. A team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, Golden, Colo., U.S.) researchers...Read more -
Zhongfu Lianzhong’s first 100m offshore blade successfully went offline
On September 1, 2021, Zhongfu Lianzhong’s first 100m large offshore wind turbine blade was successfully offline in Lianyungang blade production base. The blade is 102 meters long and adopts new interface integration technologies such as carbon fiber main beam, blade root prefabrication and ...Read more -
China’s Sinopec Shanghai set to complete high-grade carbon fiber project by end-2022
BEIJING, Aug 26 (Reuters) – China’s Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical (600688.SS) expects to finish construction of a 3.5 billion yuan ($540.11 million) carbon fiber project in late-2022 to produce a higher quality product at lower cost, a company official said on Thursday. As diesel con...Read more -
Two core investment logics of hydrogen energy: cell and key materials
The calorific value of hydrogen is 3 times that of gasoline and 4.5 times that of coke. After chemical reaction, only water without environmental pollution is produced. Hydrogen energy is a secondary energy, which needs to consume primary energy to produce hydrogen. The main ways to obtain hydrog...Read more -
Three development trends of thermoplastic carbon fiber application
With the continuous expansion of the application market, thermosetting resin based carbon fiber composites gradually show their own limitations, which can not fully meet the high-end application needs in the aspects of wear resistance and high temperature resistance. In this case, the status of t...Read more -
Introduction of molding process of thermoplastic carbon fiber composites
The forming technology of high performance thermoplastic composites is mainly transplanted from thermosetting resin composites and metal forming technology. According to different equipment, it can be divided into molding, double film molding, autoclave molding, vacuum bag molding, filament windi...Read more