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THE USE OF MICROWAVE ENERGY FOR THE FIXATING OF REACTIVE PRINTED COTTON FABRICS | Tekstil ve Konfeksiyon | ISSN: 1300-3356
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THE USE OF MICROWAVE ENERGY FOR THE FIXATING OF REACTIVE PRINTED COTTON FABRICS
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[ Volume: 18 Issue: 4 / OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2008 ]
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Arzu ÖZERDEM (Ege University, Turkey), Işık TARAKÇIOĞLU (Ege University, Turkey), Arif ÖZGÜNEY (Ege University, Turkey)
The wastes which are formed by the consumption of chemicals, water and energy, play an important role on the increase of environment pollution in textile industry, like other industries. Assessment of chemical and energy saving potentials are of great importance in terms of costs and environmental issues. On this account In this study, application of microwave energy for the fixation of reactive printings was investigated. It was determined that, the fixation of the samples could be obtained with only microwave energy without a drying process. Higher color yields were ensured with microwave fixation compared with conventional methods for the small and medium molecular sized (red and blue) reactive dyestuffs. On the other hand lower color yields were occurred at microwave fixation process, for the dyestuffs with big molecular sizes (turquoise), compared with conventional methods. The effects of the concentration of urea in the printing paste were also investigated and it was shown that adequate color yields could be obtained without using urea depending on the dyestuff properties.
Keywords: Textile printing, Microwave energy, Reactive dyestuff, Urea, Fixation
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