Effect of Low Temperature Plasma Treatment on the Scouring and Dyeing of Natural Fabrics

Abstract

The contact angles, wicking properties, scourability, and dyeability of wool and cotton fabrics are affected by low-temperature plasma treatments. After treatment, wool and cotton fabric specimens show increased hydrophilicity and improved scouring and dyeing processing by nearly 50%.

Energy Management and Energy Crisis in Textile Finishing

“…For example the cotton and wool fabrics, following the low-temperature treatment, showed 50% improved hydrophilicity in the subsequent scouring and dyeing processing. The contact angle, and wicking properties of cotton and wool fabrics were improved by the low-temperature plasma treatment [7].…”

Introduction of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma to Aqueous Detergent Processes

“…Oxygen and nitrogen radicals in plasmas can bind to substrate and soil surfaces to produce functional groups capable of hydrogen bonding. Although applications of plasma treatment to textile processes in the fields of scouring and bleaching have been proposed 6,7 , no work, to our knowledge, has been conducted on plasma pretreatment for laundering. In addition, processing with low-pressure plasmas is expensive, requires maintenance for vacuum systems, and is restricted in the size of the object that can be treated 8 .…”

Investigation Of The Effect Of The Dyeing Method On The Dyeing Properties Of Wool Fabrics Dyed With Natural Dyes Extracted From Vaccinium Corymbosum L.

“…Adjective dyes need some additives to provide colour, wash, and light fastness [1]. Textile industry has investigated new technologies to solve textile dyeing problems which are water pollution, usage a lot of dye and time consuming because of insufficient conventional systems [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. New Textile technologies are plasma, ultrasonic and microwave systems.…”

“…Textile plasma application is pre-treatment and it is used to improve hydrophobicity, hydrophilicity, dye exhaustion, adhesion, antifelting and antibacterial properties of textile materials. In addition to these advantages plasma system is environmental friendly, dry technique in connection with low water and chemical consumption [14,[16][17][18].The second alternative system is ultrasonic system. Ultrasonic system provides dye efficiency increasing under lower temperature and lower chemical concentration as well as ultrasonic textile application has shorter reaction cycle, less expensive, ecological features and ultrasonic system provides better colourfastness and light fastness when compared to the conventional textile applications [3,5,6,12,13].…”

“…Ultrasonic system provides dye efficiency increasing under lower temperature and lower chemical concentration as well as ultrasonic textile application has shorter reaction cycle, less expensive, ecological features and ultrasonic system provides better colourfastness and light fastness when compared to the conventional textile applications [3,5,6,12,13]. Another new textile application is microwave systems which are used to decrease the reaction cycle, energy consumption as well as dye efficiency increases after the microwave application [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. In this study wool fabrics were dyed with the natural dyes extracted from Vaccinium Corymbosum L.via ultrasonic, microwave and conventional methods.…”