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ÉireComposites’ research on renewables has resulted in a number of publications including the following

C. Glennon, W. Finnegan, P. Meier, Y. Jiang, J. Goggins, 2022. High cycle dynamic testing of marine hydrokinetic blades. Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference 2022 (CERI 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 25-26 August.

B. Kelley, W. Finnegan, J. Goggins, 2022. Tensile Mechanical Testing of Powder Epoxy Glass Fibre Composites with Embedded Optical Fibre Sensors, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference 2022 (CERI 2022), Dublin, Ireland. 25-26 August.

W. Finnegan, Y. Jiang, C. Glenno, P. Meier, L.C. Hung, J. Goggins. 2021. De-risking the next generating of tidal turbine blades through advanced full-scale structural testing, 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2021, Plymouth, UK. 5-9 September.

Feerick. P.J., “The Manufacture of Turbine Blades using High-Temperature Tooling and VOC–Free Polymer Composites”, Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture 2010”, Düsseldorf, Germany, December 2010.

ÉireComposites’ Research & Development has resulted in a number of publications including the following:

Wind

A.J. Del Toro, T. Flanagan, J. Teuwen, W. Finnegan, M. Flanagan, J. Goggins. 2021. Automated tape placement of carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics for offshore wind turbine blades, Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC) 2021, Hannover, Germany. 25-28 May.

Ó Brádaigh, CM, Doyle, A., Doyle, D. and Feerick. P.J., “One-Shot Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing using Powder-Epoxy and Electrically-Heated Ceramic Composite Tooling”, 7th International CFK-Valley Stade Convention, Germany, June 2013

Ó Brádaigh, C.M. “Manufacture of Composite Wind Turbine Blades using High-Temperature Integrally-Heated Composite Tooling”, Composites Innovation 2012, National Composites Centre, Bristol, UK, July 2012.

Other

W. Finnegan, T. Flanagan, C. Kelly, A. Ní Fhlatharta and J. Goggins. 2022. Improving the sustainability of fibre-reinforced polymer composite structures, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference 2022 (CERI 2022), Dublin, Ireland. 25-26 August.

ÉireComposites has also registered a patent for our blade manufacturing technology

EP 2344312 B “A Heated Mould for Moulding Polymeric Composites”.

The Mould allows out-of-autoclave processing of epoxy powder and is suitable for manufacturing products such as wind and tidal blades and other large composite structures.

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