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PO323: Digital infrastructure for decommissioned wind turbine blades: mapping tools and gaps
Ashal Tyurkay, PhD Researcher, DTU
Abstract
The end-of-life (EoL) phase of wind turbine blades presents a critical sustainability bottleneck for the wind industry. Despite growing volumes of decommissioned blades and increasing landfill restrictions, current EoL practices remain largely manual, fragmented, and digitally untracked. While Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and regulators emphasize full blade recovery, the realization of this goal remains uncertain, particularly due to immature digital infrastructures at the EoL stage. This paper addresses this systemic gap by proposing a digitalisation framework in comparison to today's EoL and decommissioning management practices aimed at transforming how blade recycling commitments are verified, integrated, and enforced across the wind energy value chain. Drawing from field mapping, academic sources, and recent industry reports, this work analyses the lifecycle integration of digital tools — especially underused at the blade decommissioning phase and how they could enable more efficient, traceable, and circular dismantling and recovery workflows. It categorises the current level of implementation (fully, partially, not implemented) of digital technologies for data management and matches them to circularity data needs across the blade lifecycle. These are assessed using a matrix of lifecycle stages, implementation maturity, and blade-specific applicability. The analysis focuses on three dimensions: data visibility, system integration, and actor coordination. This research offers an actionable roadmap for scaling digital governance tools for EoL blades as pre-conditions for a future-proof circular wind industry. Key tools include digital product passports, lifecycle-based material traceability systems, GIS-linked routing, and blockchain-based verification protocols. Our findings highlight a need to integrate blade-level data earlier in the lifecycle, maintain it through dismantling, and make it accessible to secondary users across sectors.
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