据离岸工程网站3月31日消息 总部位于英国的海上可再生能源公司Catapult周三在一份报告中称：“大规模回收风力涡轮机叶片是朝着实现海上风电产业零碳、零浪费、推动英国供应链增加2万个就业岗位迈出的重要第一步。”
该可再生能源公司呼吁增加投资，并将研发工作彻底转向风力涡轮机叶片回收利用，理由是海上风电的循环经济方式给英国供应链带来巨大的经济机遇，这可能将该行业在英国创造就业机会的目标延长三分之一，从而多创造2万个就业机会。
ORE-Catapult表示，从技术上讲，风力涡轮机几乎85-90%是可回收的，但它们的叶片由树脂和纤维复合材料制成，在分解、加工和回收方面具有挑战性，仍然是实现完全可回收的主要障碍。
根据一份与OGTC合作的ORE Catapult 报告，以及国家复合材料中心（NCC）和利兹大学专家的投入，14项技术显示出回收叶片材料的希望，但在我们看到大规模部署之前，还需要进一步的工作，特别是围绕环境影响、能源使用和热解（复合材料热处理）等技术的成本效益问题。
ORE Catapult表示：“这为英国公司提供了一个黄金机会，为我们的回收需求提供解决方案。据估计，到本世纪中叶，全球海上风电行业将需要停用85吉瓦的容量（包括325000片叶片）。虽然这些估计假设了目前25年的生命周期，但它们为该行业循环经济先驱未来全球市场的规模提供了一个例证。”
吴恒磊 编译自 离岸工程
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UK: Offshore Wind Blade Recycling Could Create 20,000 Jobs
"At-scale recycling of wind turbine blades is an important first step towards achieving a zero-carbon, zero-waste offshore wind industry and boosting the UK supply chain by 20,000 jobs, " the UK-based Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult said in a report Wednesday.
The ORE has called for increased investment and a radical shift in research and development into wind turbine blade recycling, citing the huge economic opportunities for the UK supply chain from a circular economy approach in offshore wind that could extend the sector’s UK job creation targets by a third, creating an extra 20,000 jobs.
Technically, ORE Catapult said, wind turbines are almost 85-90% recyclable, but their blades, made from composites of resins and fibers, have proven challenging to break down, process, and recycle, and remain the major hurdle to achieving fully recyclability.
According to a report which ORE Catapult produced in partnership with OGTC, and with input from experts at the National Composites Centre (NCC) and the University of Leeds, 14 technologies show promise for recovering blade materials but "further work was needed before we see them deployed at scale, particularly around issues of environmental impacts, energy use and cost-efficiency of techniques such as pyrolysis (heat treatment of composites)."
"This provides a golden opportunity for UK companies to provide solutions for our recycling needs. It is estimated that the global offshore wind industry will need to decommission 85GW of capacity (including 325,000 blades) by mid-century. While these estimates assume today’s 25-year lifecycle, they give an illustration of the scale of the future global market for circular economy pioneers in the sector," ORE Catapult said.