Comparative life cycle assessment: Reinforcing wind turbine blades with carbon nanofibers

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Merugula, Laura A ^a   Khanna, Vikas ^a   Bakshi, Bhavik R ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofibers (CNF); Life cycle assessment (LCA); Sustainability; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DESIGNS; COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE SPAN; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT; MATRIX; NEW MATERIAL; RETURN ON INVESTMENTS; SUSTAINABILITY; TURBINE BLADE; UPSTREAM PROCESS; VAPOR GROWN CARBON NANOFIBERS; WEIGHT SAVING; WIND ENERGY; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOFIBERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; GLASS FIBERS; HYBRID MATERIALS; INVESTMENTS; PROFITABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

LIFE CYCLE;

CARBON; CONVERSION; ENERGY; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; INVESTMENT; PROFITABILITY; REINFORCED PLASTIC; TURBINES; WIND;

EID: 77955103100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2010.5507724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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