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HOW TO RECYCLE WIND TURBINE BLADES

July 9, 2024
by Joe Banish
Published in: College of Engineering & Mines, Discovery

Using $3.7 million grant, UND scientists and engineers will partner with Idaho
National Laboratory to conduct research

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UND Professor of Mechanical Engineering Surojit Gupta has been awarded a $3.7
million grant to study the feasibility of recycling wind turbine blades, a topic
of increasing importance with the rise in wind power development.

The grant’s research will be conducted in collaboration with co-principal
investigators from UND, including Professor of Chemistry Yun Ji and Assistant
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Hallie Chelmo. Beth Klemetsrud, assistant
professor of chemical engineering, will lead the project’s life cycle assessment
in collaboration with the Idaho National Laboratory.

The grant will cover a period of three years, with $3 million of the funds
coming directly from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). An additional $500,000
will come from the North Dakota Industrial Commission, with local sources
rounding out the total.

UND will partner with Grand Forks-based Singularity Energy Technologies (SET),
led by its founder and President Nikhil Patel. Hasan Jamil, associate professor
of computer science at the University of Idaho and Yingqian Lin, researcher of
bioenergy at the Idaho National Laboratory, will assist with carrying out the
grant’s research activity.

The team will also employ UND graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Gupta, whose research interests center around sustainable materials, called the
difficulty of recycling turbine blades “a major impediment to adopting wind
energy.” He said most turbine blades that have reached their useful lifespan —
typically around 20 years — end up in landfills.

“Currently, the major problem is that everything is going underground in
landfills,” said Gupta. “Recently, the North Dakota Legislature has passed
legislation that restricts blades being dumped in landfills in North Dakota.
Similar legislation is getting in place all over the country. There are places
in Texas and Iowa where they have sites filled with blades.”

In addition to the University of Idaho and Idaho National Laboratory, UND will
partner with Grand Forks-based energy companies to carry out research.

Members of Surojit Gupta’s ME 420 class visit Grand Forks-based LM Wind Power.
Contributed.

“As a part of that, we will work with local companies such as LM Wind Power, as
well as our partner in the proposal is SET Technologies,” he said. “They (SET)
have gasification technology that can recycle wind blades. It’s a major award.”

Gupta said that a comprehensive recycling matrix composed of various propriety
degradation processes and gasification will be used to recycle turbine blades
holistically, converting fibers into material suitable for uses such as
construction and resin into different composite systems.


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Joe Banish is a 2017 graduate of Michigan State University. In 2022, he moved to
Grand Forks to cover higher education for the Grand Forks Herald before joining
the Division of Marketing & Communications in September 2023 as the strategic
communication writer for UND Today.


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