BIO-UPTAKE
BIO-UPTAKE
BIOcomposites in smart plastic transformation processes to pave the way for the large-scale UPTAKE of sustainable bio-based products
HORIZON-RIA | Grant agreement ID: 101057049
December 2022 – June 2026
The general objective of Bio-Uptake project is to ensure a sustainable uptake (increase the use in a 39%) of bioplastic composites
through boosting a twin green and digital transformation in the European manufacturing industry. In particular, Bio-Uptake solution will focus scientific and technology efforts on developing flexible manufacturing processes to produce biobased end-products for the construction, medical and packaging sectors based on the combination of intermediate formats made of natural and/or biobased synthetic fibres reinforced with biopolymers, which are easily adaptable to new market demands.
FUNCTIONALITIES
The combination of biobased intermediate formats to meet industry requirements: sheets (unidirectional tapes + organosheets) based on self-reinforced biobased thermoplastic polymers and endured thermosets, plus thermoplastic pellets formulations, will ensure to achieve products with enhanced mechanical, physical and chemical properties (technical disruption).
DIGITALISATION
Building a digital twin to allow a smart and trustful production and interaction across the value chain.
SUSTAINABILITY
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are materials (chemical moieties) that can undergo modifications in their inner structure based on efficient associative and dissociative exchange mechanisms that enable topology reconfiguration without loss of network integrity by thermally activated bond-exchange processes.
MAIN STEPS
Develop disruptive innovative manufacturing processes for bio-based products with a better overall performance of the current fossil-based alternatives
Adapt and upgrade conformal manufacturing technologies that constitutes the manufacturing processes for deploying biobased materials to substitute traditional materials
Implement a smart digital end-to-end platform for manufacturing biobased materials to ensure product quality and process interoperability required to optimize and upgrade each manufacturing process
Develop and validate 4 new biobased intermediate formats or semi-finished products
Demonstrate the Bio-Uptake solution in 3 manufacturing value chains (VC): construction, medical & packaging
Develop 3 end-products that are made of more than 75% biobased materials and to validate that satisfy the technical and environmental requirements
Demonstrate product circularity (reusability, remanufacturability and/or recyclability) by validating their demanufacturing process
Create 2 training programmes for upskilling professionals in circular economy and smart & green manufacturing practices
Contribute to their standardization applied to the 3 manufacturing value chains driving biomaterials uptake
Develop disruptive innovative manufacturing processes for bio-based products with a better overall performance of the current fossil-based alternatives
Adapt and upgrade conformal manufacturing technologies that constitutes the manufacturing processes for deploying biobased materials to substitute traditional materials
Implement a smart digital end-to-end platform for manufacturing biobased materials to ensure product quality and process interoperability required to optimize and upgrade each manufacturing process
Develop and validate 4 new biobased intermediate formats or semi-finished products
Demonstrate the Bio-Uptake solution in 3 manufacturing value chains (VC): construction, medical & packaging
Develop 3 end-products that are made of more than 75% biobased materials and to validate that satisfy the technical and environmental requirements
Demonstrate product circularity (reusability, remanufacturability and/or recyclability) by validating their demanufacturing process
Create 2 training programmes for upskilling professionals in circular economy and smart & green manufacturing practices
Contribute to their standardization applied to the 3 manufacturing value chains driving biomaterials uptake
In this project, SPECIFIC POLYMERS will develop tailor-made biobased epoxy resins to be used in fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRPCs) for both pre-preg and adhesive applications. The end-of-life of thermoset polymers will be addressed with vitrimer materials that will impart recycling, repairing and reshaping properties.
Moreover, SP will numerically model the polymeric systems at an atomic scale to study the structural, mechanical, and reprocessing properties of vitrimers as well as the adhesive properties. This methodology will enable to have a better understanding of the materials and help pre-selecting adequate solutions for the project.
SPECIFIC POLYMERS catalog products used in the project
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