Mechanical Response and Processability of Wet-Laid Recycled Carbon Fiber PE, PA66 and PET Thermoplastic Composites

The interest in recycled carbon fiber (rCF) is growing rapidly and the supply chain for these materials gradually being established. However, processing routes, material intermediates properties of rCF composites are less understood designers to adopt them into practice. This paper provides a practical pathway rCFs conjunction with low cost and, most part, commodity thermoplastic resins, namely polyethylene (PE), polyamide 66 (PA66) terephthalate (PET). Industrially relevant wet-laid (WL) process routes have been adopted produce mats using two variants WL mats, (a) high speed inclined wire broad good ‘roll’ forms (b) 3DEPTM patented by Materials Innovation Technologies (MIT)-recycled (RCF), now Carbon Conversions, which involves mixing fibers water depositing on water-immersed mold. These referred as ‘sheet’ forms. produced were evaluated their ‘fully consolidated mats’ ‘non-consolidated’ as-produced mats. Comprehensive mechanical data terms tensile strength, modulus impact toughness C/PE, C/PA66 C/PET presented. work value sustainable composite modelers.