Cider - "Circular product design for automotive components made from recycled and sustainable composite material"
The project Circular product Design for automotive components made from Recycled and sustainable composite material (CIDER) aims to substitute heavy steel designed automotive parts and for a higher acceptance of recycled carbon composites.
This involves new approaches into the design of a semistructural automotive parts and additionally improve the recycling process as well as the Life cycle assessment of automotive parts.
A major milestone to achieve a circular economy is to include the product’s end-oflife option into the product design. Therefore, a well functioning recycling process as well as appropriable design for recycling principles must be in place. The project Circular product Design for automotive components made from Recycled and sustainable composite material (CIDER) aims to substitute heavy steel designed automotive parts and for a higher acceptance of recycled carbon composites. This involves new approaches into the design of a semistructural automotive parts and additionally improve the recycling process as well as the Life cycle assessment of automotive parts. Hence two topics of the ERA-MIN3 call will be addressed.
On the one side, CIDER will create a circular design (Topic 2.3) for semi-structural automotive parts promoting and determining the recycling process for the produced part at design stage. This will be done by the use of a 100% recyclable
composite, saving CO2 in the life cycle, as well as providing a superior recycling strategy compared to conventional steel, aluminium, CFRP or GFRP approaches.
The second topic is addressing the recovery of all material used for the composite parts (Topic 4.4). The recycling of all materials as well their circularity will be demonstrated to showcase that a 100% circular economy for composite structures within the automotive and transportation industry is feasible.
Keywords
Recycling, composites, circular design, automotive, carbon fibre
Consortium
- Fraunhofer IGCV (Germany)
- Arkema, ADEME (France)
- AUTOTECH ENGINEERING SPAIN S.L (Spain)
- Forward Engineerin (Germany)
- IRT M2P (France)
- Autefa Solutions Germany GmbH (Germany)
- Rexhi GmbH (Germany)
- Plastic Omnium New Energies (France)
- Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
Duration
- 24 Months
1.851,291 € Total costs
920,432 € Total Requested