Recycling Aircraft

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by Other » 14/03/09, 01:17

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The world of aviation is not like the automobile
the parts in the majority of the cases have a unique serial number stamped, there is a whole paperwork which follows the parts of the exit of factory, the store, the mechanic who installs.
Tires, spark plugs, batteries, must have an official (TAG) paper which certifies that the equipment is aviation as well as its provenance the date of commissioning, a simple can of turbojet oil
there is a whole pedigree written on it and the production date and the use-by date (4 years) NATO certification

Even in the small certified Cessan
Just take a pale pale Hartzel propeller to its serial number
the body of the propeller another No, a book specially assigned to the propeller every hour made is recorded, all inspections of the little mechanic at 100 hours and annually are recorded with his license number, after 5 years even if the he plane did not fly a mandatory passage in a specialized workshop which dismantles it and checks it. sometimes a pinch of corossion at the foot of the blade it is stepped on, again everything is recorded in the book of the propeller.

A simple small plane there are 3 Cessan 172 books in the others (not ULM)
A daily book where you record all the take-off and landing at the minute, the take-off and landing places, the weight of the fuel, the number of passengers, their weight, the weight of the luggage, the Center de garvité, the quantity of oil in the engine and detected anomalies
Another book only for the plane cell
Another book only for the propeller

Then the pilot has a daily book where he must record all these flights
hours of arrival, arrival, locations, type of flight, etc.

Now you understand why, some are looking into amateur construction or ULM.
It is not long as an explanation just to say that the installation of counterfeit parts is rather difficult in aviation, To certify a simple aviation part it costs very expensive and it is complicated
It exists, but several mechanics have to ask for signatures, which in the event of glitches even 10 years later can attract many problems.


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by moinsdewatt » 15/02/15, 20:26

In Tarbes it continues to deconstruct planes,

Near Tarbes, the cemetery of flying elephants

June 30, 2012 AZEREIX, Hautes-Pyrénées (Reuters)

At the foot of the Pyrenees, the immense carcasses become entangled, some almost completely dismembered, while others wait, thin wings, amputated nose, awaiting a similar fate.

About fifteen old planes are being deconstructed on the site of the Tarmac Aerosave company, near Tarbes, a veritable aviation "elephant cemetery".

There are several Airbuses who, after having scoured all the skies of the globe, returned to end their days in this South-West which saw them born. As though stranded there, a tired painted Boeing 737-300 is in the vicinity of an old A320.

Each time, the workers removed the reusable equipment - engines, landing gear ... - and are now starting to cut up the carcass to sort the materials. The objective is to recycle up to 90% of the mass of the device.

"It is estimated that 6.000 planes in the world will reach the end of their life in the next 20 years", explains Philippe Fournadet, president of the company called Tarbes Advanced Recycling & Maintenance Aircraft Company (Tarmac).

"The idea is to 'deposit' the equipment that represents the residual value of the aircraft (...) Then, we take care of the remaining carcass."

Installed since 2008 in front of Tarbes-Lourdes airport, the company had, by the end of May, deconstructed 21 planes and started the dismantling of 12 others.

With around forty employees, it also provides storage and maintenance of equipment, which represents 70% of its turnover of 7,7 million euros.

The remaining 30% correspond to the deconstruction of end-of-life models, where, as Philippe Fournadet emphasizes, "the key word is respect for the environment".

KEROSENE, URANIUM AND ASBESTOS

The 30 hectare site has watertight deconstruction zones and a rainwater collection system to prevent leaks of dangerous liquids.

"An old plane is dripping. Fluids are the most complicated to master," explains Sébastien Médan, responsible for the deconstruction activity, who cites kerosene, which is very flammable, or hydraulic oil as an example.

Some old devices also contain balancing weights made of depleted uranium, or even asbestos, which must be adequately reprocessed.

"Our role is to take complex waste and sort it into simple waste," he summarizes in the shadow of the carcass of an A340-300. Not far from there, under the hot June sun, two cranes are busy moving another machine and positioning it on holds.

The sorted materials are stored in a dedicated area where seats and fuselage parts in aluminum pile up, stainless steel piping, air conditioning pipes in titanium, used tires. On average, an airplane carcass contains 70% aluminum.

Recycled, these materials will have a second life in household appliances, civil engineering, or may fly back into the bowels of another aircraft.

Certain elements have a more "exotic" destination, adds Sébastien Médan, such as these cockpits taken to become simulators, or these aircraft doors reused for the training of flight personnel.

ORGAN DONATION

Among its shareholders, Tarmac Aerosave includes the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the engine manufacturer Snecma and the waste management company Sita, respective subsidiaries of EADS, Safran and Suez Environment.

Airbus gets feedback on how its planes age and can try to anticipate, from the design office, the future deconstruction operation that one aircraft will experience one day. Snecma, for its part, sees it as a source of supply for second-hand parts.

At the entrance to the 30-meter-high hangar where maintenance operations are carried out, wooden crates are lined up, smeared with felt in the technical description of the spare parts they contain, waiting to be returned to the owner of the device.

When we are surprised to see end-of-life device parts back in service, Philippe Fournadet emphasizes that the equipment is recertified before being reused and reports "a thousand items of equipment to be recovered by plane" .

"What causes a plane to stop? These are always economic reasons," he says. "An aging aircraft consumes fuel, requires major maintenance operations, which is often expensive."

Hence the removal of the "residual value" of the device and its reintroduction on the second-hand market, as a sort of organ donation from these venerable elephants at the end of their life.

"We can say that, yes, except that it is not a gift", laughs the manager, who worked for 20 years in the maintenance activities of EADS before taking the head of Tarmac.

Philippe Fournadet also confesses a certain emotion of having to preside at the last moments of these giants of the sky.

"The first time we deconstructed an aircraft, it was weird to know that it was its last flight ... But then you get used to it."

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by moinsdewatt » 20/06/15, 13:52

The aircraft recycling puzzle

By Myrtille Delamarche -Usine Nouvelle on June 19, 2015,

In five years, the average lifespan of an aircraft has increased from 31 to 26 years. This shortened use, coupled with the increase in traffic, makes it essential to ramp up the recycling process for aircraft. But the value of recycled products is falling…

In its latest market study, Boeing estimates the annual renewal rate of air fleets at 2% to 3%. "There will be more and more aircraft candidates for withdrawal from service", confirms to AFP Philippe Fournadet, president of Tarmac Aerosave, a joint venture owned by Airbus, Sita (Suez environment) and Snecma (Safran group) installed at Tarbes airport. Philippe Fournadet estimates the world market at between 12 and 000 scrapped devices over the next 15 years, or 000 to 20 per year. If they had to be stored, more than half of the surface of Paris would have to be devoted to them.

The only solution: clean them up, take them apart and recycle them. The global aircraft dismantling market represented a total value of around 80 million dollars in 2014, according to a study carried out in partnership by TeamSAI Consulting and Afra (Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association).

But, as often on the market, an abundance of goods hurts. The increasing volumes of carcasses and spare parts lower the price, and the activity is not so easy to balance. According to Afra, the cumulative value of these used parts (sold at around 50% of the price of new) would still reach $ 3,3 billion per year. As for aluminum, which constitutes the majority material of a model like the A380, it has lost more than a third of its value in three years, making its resale less remunerative although it is recyclable indefinitely. A properly dismantled aircraft nevertheless makes it possible to manufacture 5 cans (drink cans).

TWO ACTORS IN FRANCE

In France there are only two sites dedicated to this activity. The oldest, at Châteauroux airport, has been operated by Bartin Aero Recycling since 2005. This Veolia subsidiary specializing in the recycling of metals dismantles around ten aircraft each year on a 15 m000 platform.

In Tarbes, Tarmac Aerosave has been ensuring since 2009 the maintenance or dismantling of end-of-life aircraft on a 30-hectare site. Faced with exploding demand, a second 340-hectare site was opened at Teruel airport in Spain. The company presents itself as the European leader in storage, maintenance and recycling of end-of-life aircraft, with more than 50 aircraft dismantled to date, valued at more than 85% by mass. The objective is to go up to 90%.



TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES

Several brakes still prevent increased recovery of scrapped aircraft. To improve this rate, the ecodesign movement should be accelerated. In addition to the lightening and fuel economy, this must include a constraint of recyclability of the devices.

Complex alloys, for example, make it more difficult and more expensive to recycle metals, which have to be re-separated. Carbon composites, which account for 50% in the construction of the latest aircraft models, also pose an increasingly significant problem. Suez announced on June 19, at Le Bourget, the development of a technology for separating resin and carbon fibers in partnership with the start-up Camille, which patented the Xcrusher technology (also used in the mining sector). This separation by pulsed energy, without chemical solvent, makes it possible to recover the fibers, which retain their length and their properties. This project is part of the "New Industrial France" scheme.

Aeronautics is no longer the major polluter it used to be, rejecting biofuels and leaving some 4 aircraft stored or buried under the sand of the Arizona desert. The sector has taken the turn of sustainable development. But the green planes remain to be built.

Blueberry Delamarche

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by moinsdewatt » 02/03/16, 20:54

Tarmac Aerosave aircraft deconstructor invests and has its eye on services

By MARINA ANGEL Usine Nouvelle on March 01, 2016

To cope with strong growth in its activities, the French specialist in aircraft deconstruction, Tarmac Aerosave, is expanding its facilities in Azereix, near Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) and is preparing the development of new service activities.


Construction of new storage buildings, extension of administrative buildings, extension of aircraft parking spaces, ... Construction sites are progressing well on the site of Tarmac Aerosave, in Azereix (Hautes-Pyrénées), in the immediate vicinity of the platform - Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées airport form.


Specializing both in the dismantling of end-of-life aircraft and in the storage of aircraft with maintenance in operational conditions, the company has to face strong growth in its activities. "In 2015, Tarmac Aerosave received 130 aircraft, including around fifty in Tarbes," said Philippe Fournadet, President of Tarmac Aerosave.

Overall, the number of aircraft received by the company since its creation in 2009, has passed the 350 mark, including 70 for dismantling. An increase in load which required new investments.

In early February, it received a new 2 square meter building at its Azereix site to develop storage capacities for aircraft parts and equipment. In the process, a new extension of 300 square meters, still for the storage of parts and equipment, should be delivered during the month of April 1.

At the same time, an office building of 500 square meters is being developed. These investments are globally valued at 2 million euros.

A new 6 square meter storage hall and additional aircraft parking
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by moinsdewatt » 24/11/19, 22:37

News from Tarmac Aerosave:

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A mobile cutting machine

At the same time, Tarmac Aerosave does not give up on the deconstruction side. The activity is steadily gaining momentum. It should concern around thirty devices in 2019. To date, a total of 140 aircraft have been deconstructed. And a new tool, complementary to the large cutting gantry based in Tarbes, has just been developed: a cutting tunnel intended for civil and military aircraft with narrow fuselage (of the single-aisle type). Once the wings are disassembled, the fuselage can be cut into sections. Major characteristic of the new machine: it is mobile. "Most planes intended for dismantling arrive in flight. This new tool, developed internally by our teams, meets specific needs for planes that no longer fly, or to prevent certain aircraft from traveling too great distances. ", explains Patrick Lecer. Enough to open up new horizons in France and internationally.

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the Tarbes de Tarmac Aerosave site is preparing to welcome new maintenance activities.

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by moinsdewatt » 24/11/19, 22:38

An Airbus A380 totally boned by a Tarbes company: a first!
Airbus will no longer build A380s in 2021. But the superjumbo will have a second life on the second-hand market and on that of spare parts. A boon for the Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) company Tarmac Aérosave which has just dismantled one of these aircraft for the first time.

By Sylvain Duchamp on 24/11/2019

"Some parts of the A380 had never been dismantled and most were sold to their manufacturer." Alain Leboucher, commercial director of Tarmac Aérosave does not hide a certain enthusiasm.

The Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) company, the European leader in aircraft storage, maintenance and recycling in Europe, has just deconstructed an A380 in just under a year. A first.

Equipment with high market value
After operating the superjumbo for 12 years, the airline Singapore Airlines has not renewed its rental contract with the German company Dr Peters Group. "Initially we only had to store the device and then the owner asked us to deconstruct it." says Mr. Leboucher.

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The A380 having "very specific" equipment and representing a "very high market value", all the parts were recovered and immediately put back on the market. Due to their price, the landing gears were very quickly removed forcing Tarmac Aerosave to manufacture "cradles on which to rest the aircraft in order to be able to move it."

Used A380s
The Tarbaise company accommodates three other A 380 but all will not be dismantled. "Deconstruction is not systematic for all aircraft. One of our activities consists in refitting and refurbishing aircraft, explains Alain Leboucher. Two of them will be put back on the second market, that of the opportunity."

Some companies will continue to use it on new routes: "The segment is narrow but it will be in demand. In 2018, Hi Fly, a Portuguese aircraft rental company, which also provides personnel, maintenance and insurance, has become the first operator of a used Airbus A380. British Airways will also increase its A380 fleet. "



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by moinsdewatt » 24/11/19, 22:38

Video on planes stored in Tarbes
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by Christophe » 25/11/19, 00:30

moinsdewatt wrote:News from Tarmac Aerosave:



I dream where there is already A380 waiting for its dismantling? : Shock: : Shock: : Shock:
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by Christophe » 25/11/19, 00:33

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