Retired old wind turbine blades are reborn as badminton rackets
Retired old wind turbine blades are reborn as badminton rackets
2025-12-15
Taiwan has been developing wind power as a new form of green energy. But ironically once the massive wind turbine blades involved are decommissioned, they pose a serious threat to the environment whenever they’re buried or incinerated. Now, in a major breakthrough, they have been successfully recycled to become badminton rackets using unique technology in a collaboration between National Chung Hsing University and Swancor.
Decommissioned wind turbine blades are no longer a threat to the environment. They have been recycled and repurposed, with a new lease of life as carbon fiber badminton rackets.
Shen Ming-yuan
National Chung Hsing University
By creating plastic granules containing carbon fibers, we can use plastic injection molding technologies, which are very mature in Taiwan, to make a racket.
This is the world’s first badminton racket made from recycled carbon fiber from discarded wind turbine blades. It was created through collaboration between wind power giant Swancor and National Chung Hsing University.
Shen Ming-yuan
National Chung Hsing University
The unstrung racket weighs about 88 grams and its carbon fiber content is about 40%.
One kilogram of plastic granules containing carbon fiber can produce about 10 to 11 rackets.
The hard composite material of wind turbine blades is now being separated into carbon fiber known as “black gold” through a unique microwave pyrolysis technology, giving waste a new life.
Tsai Hsiao-te
Swancor CEO
We can take our blades after they have been cropped and trimmed. We remove the carbon plates inside, our “black gold”, and then microwave them. The resulting product is essentially recycled carbon fiber. By using technologies from National Chung Hsing University, we’ve successfully used these recycled fibers in downstream applications.
Giant wind turbine blades have become badminton rackets. A Taiwanese company and academia have joined forces to transform troublesome environmental waste into a new favorite on the sports field.
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全球首支! 台灣"微波熱裂解"風機葉片 打造回收碳纖維羽球拍
2025-12-15
台灣發展風力發電，但巨大風機葉片一旦除役，過去往往只能掩埋或焚燒，造成環境負擔。現在有了重大突破，中興大學與上緯投控合作，利用獨家的微波技術，成功把廢棄葉片裡的碳纖維提煉出來，做成了全球第一支全回收碳纖維羽球拍，讓垃圾變黃金。
風力發電機巨型葉片，除役後不再是環境殺手，回收再利用，搖身一變成了碳纖維羽球拍。
[[中興大學循環經濟研究學院副教授 沈銘原]]
“變成這樣含碳纖維的塑膠粒，我們就可以用台灣很成熟的射出成型，我們就可以做射出球拍”
這是全球第一支，用廢棄風機葉片做成的再生碳纖維羽球拍，由風電大廠上緯投控與中興大學合作成功打造。
[[中興大學循環經濟研究學院副教授 沈銘原]]
“這個一支球拍的空拍，重量大概是在88克，碳纖維含量大概占40%，一公斤這樣含碳纖維的塑膠粒，大概可以生成，應該在10支到11支左右”
風機葉片堅硬的複合材料，現在經過獨家的微波熱裂解技術，精準分離出被稱為黑金的碳纖維，廢棄物有了新生命。
[[上緯投控總經理 蔡孝德]]
“可以把我們的葉片，裁切後的葉片，裡面的黑金的碳板取出來之後，進行微波加熱處理，產品出來其實就是一個回收碳纖維的部分，再應用到中興大學一些技術，成功把我們這些回收纖維，下游的應用導出去”
從巨大風機葉片，變身手中的羽球拍，台灣產學界聯手，讓難解的環保廢棄物，華麗轉身，成為運動場上的新寵兒。
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