UND receive grant to study recycling wind turbine blades

(KNOX) – The University of North Dakota will utilize a $3.7 million grant to study the feasibility of recycling wind turbine blades, a topic of increasing importance with the rise in wind power development.
The grant research will be conducted in collaboration with UND professors, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and the Idaho National Laboratory.
The grant will cover three years, with $3 million coming directly from the U.S. Department of Energy. An additional $500,000 will come from the North Dakota Industrial Commission, with local sources rounding out the total.

Recently, the North Dakota Legislature passed legislation that restricts blades being dumped in landfills in North Dakota. Similar legislation is going in place all over the country.
SET Technologies has gasification technology that can recycle wind blades.