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JCATI Carbon Fiber Recycler

By Parker Sudderth
With Aaron Eastman, Maggie Romero, Mathew Denchel, Sean Tomkins,
& Hyung Min Kim 

The Joint Center For Aerospace Technology Innovation has (JCATI )sponcered the MET senior students of CWU on the engineering and manufacturing of a carbon fiber recycler. The specific task of this project is the shredder that cuts the delaminated carbon fiber into small peices. The shredder modual needs to be mounted so that it is linear to the crusher that delaminates the carbon fiber. A Fly wheel needs to increase to moment of inertia so that it can handle feedrate after crushers release. At the output of the shredder carbon fiber shreds should be transported in even, spreadout layers to the oven for the final process of baking the resin off the carbon fiber bits.

Assembled JCATI Shredder

Housing

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Top Shaft

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Bottom Shaft

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Requirements
  • Cost under $1,500

  • Choking won’t occur when shedder feed rate exceeds 1’ per minute on pieces less than 6”.

  • Shredder mouth is aligned with crusher exit within + 0.25”.

  • Design must include and be compatible with current blades and drive system.

  • Shavings exiting the shredder should not exceed an accumulated depth of 0.5”.

  • Shreds fibers into lengths between 0.5 and 1.0 inches.

Propellor

Results

Final Spring Presentation
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