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Development of high performance recycled carbon fibre composites with an advanced hydrodynamic fibre alignment process (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, Z., Turner, T. A., Wong, K. H., & Pickering, S. J. (2021). Development of high performance recycled carbon fibre composites with an advanced hydrodynamic fibre alignment process. Journal of Cleaner Production, 278, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123785

Carbon fibre composites have great potential for vehicle lightweighting but the high cost and environmental impact of their production tends to largely undermine the advantages in nonaerospace applications. Recycled fibre has the potential to signifi... Read More about Development of high performance recycled carbon fibre composites with an advanced hydrodynamic fibre alignment process.

Effect of fibre suspension jet stability on alignment quality of discontinuous carbon fibre tapes (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Z., Turner, T., Wong, K., & Pickering, S. (2019). Effect of fibre suspension jet stability on alignment quality of discontinuous carbon fibre tapes. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 120, Article 103102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.103102

A hydrodynamic alignment process has been developed for converting discontinuous random carbon fibres into tapes with a highly aligned orientation distribution to greatly improve the applicability of recovered fibres to composite parts.... Read More about Effect of fibre suspension jet stability on alignment quality of discontinuous carbon fibre tapes.

Environmental aspects of use of recycled carbon fibre composites in automotive applications (2017)
Journal Article
Meng, F., McKechnie, J., Turner, T., Wong, K. H., & Pickering, S. J. (in press). Environmental aspects of use of recycled carbon fibre composites in automotive applications. Environmental Science and Technology, 51(21), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b04069

The high cost and energy intensity of virgin carbon fibre manufacture provides an opportunity to recover substantial value from carbon fibre reinforced plastic wastes. In this study, we assess the life cycle environmental implications of recovering c... Read More about Environmental aspects of use of recycled carbon fibre composites in automotive applications.