Carbon fibre (CF) recycling has been demonstrated to achieve reductions in environmental impacts compared to virgin CF production, but there is limited understanding of the financial viability of recycling and reutilisation of recycled CF (rCF). In this work, cost analysis and identification of market opportunities for rCF are performed by evaluating the cost of recycling, composite manufacture, and applications in automotive industry. Cost impacts of using rCF as a substitute for conventional materials and competitor lightweight materials are assessed over the full life cycle, including in-use implications. Recovery of CF can be achieved at $5/kg and less across a wide range of process parameters, approximately 15% of the cost of producing virgin carbon fibre. The life cycle cost results show that rCF composites, especially aligned rCF composites, give substantial cost reductions relative to virgin CF composites and even steel and aluminium.

与原始CF生产相比，已证明碳纤维（CF）的回收可减少对环境的影响，但对回收CF和循环利用CF（rCF）的财务可行性的了解有限。在这项工作中，rCF的成本分析和市场机会的确定是通过评估回收，复合材料制造的成本以及在汽车行业中的应用来进行的。在整个生命周期中评估使用rCF替代传统材料和竞争对手轻质材料的成本影响，包括使用中的影响。在各种工艺参数中，CF的回收率可以达到$ 5 / kg，甚至更低，约为原始碳纤维生产成本的15％。生命周期成本结果表明，rCF复合材料，尤其是取向的rCF复合材料，