Wind turbine the star at Carbo4Power’s final workshop at Homerton College

Carbo4Power’s open day workshop at Homerton College showcased recent advances in the development of lightweight, multifunctional and digitalised materials for wind and tidal turbines.

Carbo4Power is a four-year project launched in 2020 led by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The multidisciplinary team has 18 partners (including eight SMEs) from eight countries. This was the final Open Day workshop of the Carbo4Power project.

Delegates were presented with a successful manufacture of components and final assembly of a 1:20 downsized 15MW wind turbine blade 6 metres long: the demo was designed by Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult in the UK and manufactured by AIMEN research centre in Spain.

The wind turbine demo has been developed with enhanced properties like anti-icing and improved lighting strike performance by involvement of many project partners including Haydale, Franuhofer, CIDETEC and NTUA among others.

The workshop at Homerton attracted over 60 participants in-person and online.

Participating organisations included Airbus, Avanzare, EPSRC Industrial CDT in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE), FastBlade, EURECAT, Lucideon, TWI, CIDETEC, Fraunhofer IFAM, University of Birmingham, TMBK Partners, Graphenea, Nanografi Nano Technology, University of Leeds, Tecnalia, Leitat, IRES, INEGI, Sigmatex, University of Strathclyde, and NOVITOM, among others.

Bojan Boskovic, CEO of organisers Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology, said: “Project results are presented on the virtual exhibition platform that we developed and plan to use after the project end for supporting further technology development and bringing together the community through similar future events.”

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