EFFECTS OF ULTRASONIC WASHING ON COTTON TEXTILES
Journal Title: Annals of the University of Oradea. Fascicle of Textiles, Leatherwork - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
The idea of employing ultrasonic energy to textiles has been commenced since 1990s. It can be seen that the use of ultrasonic energy in textile washing processes has some advantages such as energy conservation, reducing the duration of the processes, and improving the parameters of the product quality. For this reason, ultrasonic energy can be an alternative to conventional washing methods. More recently, ultrasonic energy has been used on the dyeing of cellulose nanofibres. However in generally, researchers have been used ultrasonic energy on the wet finishing processes rather than the effects of mechanical properties of the yarns. In this work, we aimed to study the mechanical properties of the cotton textiles after being washed with the help of ultrasonic energy. 100% cotton yarns and knitted fabrics produced from these yarns were washed by both ultrasonic and conventional methods. The two techniques were compared in terms of yarn breaking strength, yarn breaking elongation, pilling of fabrics and lightness (L*) values of the fabrics. The results showed that ultrasonic washing can present slightly higher mechanical properties than the conventional washing of the cotton yarns. It was observed that ultrasonically washed fabrics have better pilling values than the conventionally washed fabrics. Cotton fabric appearances were also examined under JEOL-JSM 5910 LV model scanning electron microscope.
Authors and Affiliations
Suat CANOGLU, Muge YUKSELOGLU S.
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