Trans-Atlantic Workshop on Rare Earth Elements and Other Critical Materials for a Clean Energy Future Carbon fibers as raw material for light weight systems in wind energy and automotive applications … Availability and challenges for the future Dr. Michael Heine MIT Cambridge/Massachusetts, Dec. 3, 2010
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Trans-Atlantic Workshopon Rare Earth Elements and
Other Critical Materials for a Clean Energy Future
Carbon fibers as raw material for light weight systems in wind energy and automotive applications …
Availability and challenges for the future
Dr. Michael HeineMIT Cambridge/Massachusetts, Dec. 3, 2010
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Agenda
• Fundamental global challenges
• Competitive advantages of carbon fibers
• Carbon fibers applications
–Wind energy
–Automotive
• Carbon fiber market demand
• Consequences
• Future prospects
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Fundamental global challenges foster the future economy
General approach
“Towards an ecologically sensitive world”
Key challengesChanged economic
environmentEnergy / raw
materials availabilityClimatechange
Sustainable solutions
Energyefficiency
Lightweight
Alternativeenergies
Carbon fibers contributes to all three sustainable solutions
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The competitive advantages of carbon fibers
Sustainable solutions
Energyefficiency
Lightweight
Alternativeenergies
7,9
2,71,6
Steel Aluminium CFRP
No other material is lighter
Density(kg/l)
… or stronger and stiffer
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General technology trends:• Fuel efficient cars
• Alternate fuels (CNG, LPG, E-10)
• Hybrid propulsion
• Plug in electrical vehicles
Carbon fibers for wind energy and automotive
General technology trends:• On shore to off shore
• Increase of rotor-blade size
• Rotor-blades with higher strength to weight ratios
• Integrated systems such as wind-diesel, wind-SPV, wind-battery etc.
Sustainable solutionsEnergy
efficiencyLight
weightAlternativeenergies
Audi R8
Wind energy Automotive
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Wind energy:Carbon fibers for „Large Rotor-Blade Sizes“