CARBO4POWER

Description:

CIDETEC is glad to present a new H2020 project, which targets the development of a new generation of more durable, multifunctional and digitalized rotor blades for offshore wind turbines that will increase their operational performance. The innovative concept is based on nano-engineered hybrid (multi)materials and their intelligent architectures with the scope to deliver both wind and tidal turbine blades.

CIDETEC will participate in Carbo4Power as the leader of Work package 1, for the development of nano-engineered composite materials. Cidetec will contribute with new sustainable nano-engineered composite materials, based on CIDETEC´s proprietary 3R technology with dynamic epoxy resin formulations for fiber-reinforced composite materials. Formulations will be adapted to the required specifications and the manufacturing processes to be used, and will contribute to improve turbine blades reparability and recyclability.

Additionally, CIDETEC will contribute with coatings with tailored functional properties for the improvement of durability and performance of offshore energy plants. For this, several omniphobic approaches will be followed, including omniphobic technologies, comprising the patented ionogel technology that prevents adhesion to the underlying substrate by implementing high slippery and self-cleaning properties to avoid the accumulation of fouling, based on low-vapour pressure lubricants and low energy surface polymer materials.