Making Carbon Fiber Renewable
Abstract
Carbon fiber is an amazing lightweight material for cars and planes but currently made with the chemical acrylonitrile that is produced from an energy-intensive process that produces hydrogen cyanide. Scientists at NREL discovered a groundbreaking new method that uses renewable resources and is a cleaner, cheaper way to produce acrylonitrile, the building block of carbon fiber—and one immune from the swings of petroleum pricing.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1700494
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 10 SYNTHETIC FUELS; CARBON FIBER; GREENHOUSE GASES; RENEWABLE; CLEAN ENERGY; ACRYLONITRILE
Citation Formats
Karp, Eric, and Beckham, Gregg. Making Carbon Fiber Renewable. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web.
Karp, Eric, & Beckham, Gregg. Making Carbon Fiber Renewable. United States.
Karp, Eric, and Beckham, Gregg. Tue .
"Making Carbon Fiber Renewable". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1700494.
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abstractNote = {Carbon fiber is an amazing lightweight material for cars and planes but currently made with the chemical acrylonitrile that is produced from an energy-intensive process that produces hydrogen cyanide. Scientists at NREL discovered a groundbreaking new method that uses renewable resources and is a cleaner, cheaper way to produce acrylonitrile, the building block of carbon fiber—and one immune from the swings of petroleum pricing.},
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year = {2018},
month = {11}
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