粘胶纤维的研制和新技术

本文概述了国内外粘胶纤维的研制、新产品、新工艺匆存在的间题,对超微细粘胶纤维的性能、用途和经济效益作了介绍。新溶剂NMMO纤维素纤维的研究和开发比粘胶纤维工艺大为简化,解决了环境污染的难题,提高了纤维物理性能,实现了粘胶法的根本性改革。     

聚乙烯醇无卤阻燃研究进展

鉴于环保的压力,无卤阻燃剂逐渐替代含卤阻燃剂,用在聚乙烯醇(Polyvinyl alcohol,PVA)阻燃处理中。本文综述了近年来无卤阻燃PVA的最新研究进展,总结分析了无机型阻燃剂、磷系阻燃剂、氮系阻燃剂、膨胀型阻燃剂及反应型阻燃剂对PVA的阻燃研究现状,介绍了不同类型阻燃剂的阻燃机理、优缺点以及典型阻燃剂对PVA阻燃性质和力学性质的影响;在此基础上讨论了PVA阻燃的独特性,充分利用PVA的结构特征,研制出适合PVA加工方式的阻燃剂复配配方是PVA阻燃研究的主要发展方向。     

聚氯乙烯(PVC)的阻燃与抑烟研究进展

综述了无机阻燃剂对聚氯乙烯(PVC)阻燃和抑烟性能的影响,对阻燃剂和抑烟剂作了分类介绍。重点介绍了金属氢氧化物、锑系、硼系、锡系、红磷和含锌化合物等阻燃剂,对各体系进行了比较,指出各体系的阻燃机理、添加量、以及常用的改进方法。介绍了水滑石、沸石、蒙脱土等新型无机阻燃剂,这些阻燃剂在PVC的应用中具有潜在的优势,具有添加量少、阻燃效率高的优点。阻燃剂与抑烟剂的超细化、活性化、复合化是PVC阻燃与抑烟改性的发展方向。     

阻燃剂及材料的阻燃处理

阻燃剂是能够保护材料不着火或使火焰难以蔓延的化学物质。介绍了常见阻燃剂的种类、阻燃机理、材料的阻燃处理及新型阻燃剂的发展,以增强人们对阻燃技术领域的认识和了解。     

膨胀型阻燃涂料的研究进展

本文综述了近年来膨胀型阻燃涂料的研究进展,从膨胀型阻燃涂料的构成(基料、膨胀阻燃体系、填料颜料、助剂)出发,详细介绍了国内外基料的研究现况;并对常用的主要膨胀型阻燃剂,包括炭化剂、脱水催化剂和发泡剂进行了总结和分类;结合国外的研究,将常用几种填料对膨胀型阻燃涂料的性能影响作了系统的总结,对阻燃协效剂和其它助剂的影响和使用情况也进行了归纳和论述,并在此基础上对未来膨胀型阻燃涂料的发展趋势提出了建议。     

有机硅阻燃剂的研究进展

有机硅阻燃剂不仅具有良好的热稳定性和环保特点,而且在提高聚合物阻燃性能的同时,不影响材料的加工性能和机械性能。有机硅阻燃剂作为一种高效无卤阻燃剂,已日益得到高分子学术界和产业界的重视。本文阐述了有机硅阻燃剂近年来国内外的发展概况,着重介绍线型聚硅氧烷、支链型聚硅氧烷以及有机硅协效阻燃体系的分子结构以及阻燃机理。     

水滑石阻燃剂的离子改性研究进展

由于水滑石具有层板阳离子可调控、层间阴离子可交换、酸碱性等独特的性能,在医药、离子交换、催化、材料阻燃等领域备受研究者关注。特别是水滑石用作阻燃材料时,具有无卤、无毒、不产生有毒和腐蚀性气体、阻燃和抑烟性能优良等突出优点,已成为当前材料阻燃领域研究的热点。然而,水滑石也存在热稳定性较差、容易聚集、分散性较差等缺点,故国内外学者开展了一些水滑石阻燃剂改性的系列研究。本文阐述了近年来国内外学者利用Ca2+、Mg2+、Al3+等阳离子对水滑石阻燃剂进行改性,以及应用BO33-、SiO32-等阴离子对水滑石阻燃剂进行改性等方面的研究进展,并对水滑石在生物质材料阻燃、低成本水滑石阻燃剂的合成、水滑石协效阻燃剂的研究、水滑石阻燃剂工业化生产新工艺与设备、洁净化制备技术等方面的研究与应用前景进行了展望。     

绿色环保型氢氧化镁阻燃剂

介绍了阻燃剂的种类和发展趋势,并重点介绍了氢氧化镁阻燃剂的阻燃机理、特点、应用和发展。指出氢氧化镁阻燃剂是一种新型的、对环境友好的无机阻燃剂。     

磷系阻燃剂阻燃聚碳酸酯研究进展*

磷系阻燃剂具有阻燃效率高、低烟、低毒、与基质材料相容性好等优点,在阻燃高分子材料领域得到广泛应用。本文介绍了磷系阻燃剂的分类及阻燃机理,综述了近年来磷酸酯阻燃剂、膦酸酯阻燃剂、DOPO磷杂菲类阻燃剂、磷腈类阻燃剂和无机磷阻燃剂在阻燃聚碳酸酯领域的研究进展,为新型磷系阻燃剂的研发提供参考。     

纳米阻燃高分子材料:现状、问题及展望

纳米阻燃体系是一种新型的聚合物阻燃体系,被誉为阻燃技术的革命.极少量(≤5wt%)纳米阻燃剂的加入即能显著降低高分子材料燃烧时的热释放速率(HRR)和烟密度(SEA),延缓其燃烧过程,还能不同程度地提高材料的力学性能.本文总结了近年来国内外纳米阻燃领域的进展,介绍了本课题组在纳米阻燃方面所做的工作,探讨了纳米阻燃研究中存在的问题,并对其未来的发展进行了展望.     

Pyrolysis products and thermal degradation mechanism of intrinsically flame-retardant calcium alginate fibre

Intrinsically flame-retardant calcium alginate fibre was prepared by wet spinning and its pyrolysis products and thermal degradation mechanism studied. Combustion behaviour and flammability were assessed using the limiting oxygen index (LOI) and cone calorimetry. LOI results showed that calcium alginate fibre was intrinsically flame retardant with LOI value of 48.0, as compared to about 20.0 for viscose fibre. Cone calorimetry indicated that heat release rate and total heat release values of intrinsically flame-retardant fibre were significantly less than those of viscose fibre. It also shown that intrinsically flame-retardant fibre combustion produced greater quantities of residues than did viscose fibre combustion. Combustion residues were examined using scanning electron microscopy, indicating that calcium alginate fibre produced consistent, thick residue crusts. Pyrolysis was investigated using pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) which showed that cracking products produced from calcium alginate fibres combustion were less than those in viscose fibre combustion, and pyrolysis of the intrinsically flame-retardant fibre was incomplete. Thermogravimetric analysis (TG) indicated that calcium alginate fibre generated more residues containing carbonaceous char and calcium carbonate, as compared with viscose fibre. We propose a condensed phase mechanism for the calcium alginate fibre flame-retardancy effect.     

Production of highly conductive textile viscose yarns by chemical vapor deposition technique: a route to continuous process

An oxidative chemical vapor deposition (OCVD) process was used to coat flexible textile fiber (viscose) with highly conductive polymer, poly (3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) in presence of ferric (III) chloride (FeCl₃) oxidant. OCVD is a solvent free process used to get uniform, thin, and highly conductive polymer layer on different substrates. In this paper, PEDOT coated viscose fibers, prepared under specific conditions, exhibited high conductivity 14.2 S/cm. The effects of polymerization conditions, such as polymerization time, oxidant concentration, dipping time of viscose fiber in oxidant solution, and drying time of oxidant treated viscose fiber, were carefully investigated. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and FT‐IR analysis revealed that polymerization of PEDOT on surface of viscose fiber has been taken place and structural analysis showed strong interactions between PEDOT and viscose fiber. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was employed to investigate the amount of PEDOT in PEDOT coated viscose fiber and interaction of PEDOT with viscose fiber. The effect of PEDOT coating on the mechanical properties of the viscose fiber was evaluated by tensile strength testing of the coated fibers. The obtained PEDOT coated viscose fiber having high conductivity, could be used in smart clothing for medical and military applications, heat generation, and solar cell demonstrators. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Recycling of Cellulosic Fibers by Enzymatic Process

In this research, enzymatic treatment as an environmental friendly process has been used for recycling process of old cellulosic wastes such as cotton, viscose, and lyocell. Cellulase hydrolyses cellulosic chains and shortens cellulosic fibers. This study investigates to detect the optimum enzyme concentration and time of treatments for suitable changes of length and weight loss. The main purposes of this article are shortening of cellulosic fibers and evaluating of enzymatic treatment in different kind of cellulosic fibers. According to the data of experiments, with the increase of enzyme concentration and the treatment time, the length and weight loss percentage of the cellulosic fibers has been decreased. The length and weight loss percentage of treated viscose is more than that of lyocell and cotton fibers. Optimized condition, reaction time, and enzyme concentration have been determined by mean length of treated cellulosic samples. Suitable longitudinal distribution of fiber for papermaking industries is in the range of 0 to 4 mm. Optimum enzyme concentration and treatment time for recycling cotton, lyocell, and viscose fibers are 2% and 48 h for cotton and lyocell and 0.5% and 48 h for viscose, respectively. According to the data of experiment, the length of treated fibers is appropriate for its usage as a raw material in papermaking industries.     

Structure and thermal properties of bamboo viscose,Tencel and conventional viscose fiber

Comparative investigations of new regenerated cellulosic fibers, bamboo viscose fiber and Tencel, together with conventional viscose fibers have been carried out to explain the similarity and difference in their molecular and fine structure. The analyses jointly using SEM, XRD and IR reveal that all the three fibers belong to cellulose II. Tencel consists of longer molecules and has a greater degree of crystallinity, while bamboo viscose fiber has a lower degree of crystallinty. TG-DTG-DSC study shows three fibers resemble in thermal behavior with a two-step decomposition mode. The first step is associated to water desorption, suggesting that bamboo viscose fiber holds better water retention and release ability, the second a depolymerization and decomposition of regenerated cellulose, indicating that Tencel is more thermally stable in this process than bamboo and conventional viscose fiber.     

Progress in cellulose shaping: 20 years industrial case studies at Fraunhofer IAP

Cellulose, the most abundant renewable organic material on earth, exhibits outstanding properties and useful applications, but also presents a tremendous challenge with regard to economical and environmentally friendly chemical processing. The viscose process, more than 100 year old is still the most widely utilized technology to manufacture regenerated cellulose fibers and films. Viscose fibers are produced today worldwide on a 5 million ton scale with various fiber types ranging from high performance tire yarn to textile filaments and staple fibers with excellent properties close to those of cotton. At Fraunhofer IAP, the technical equipment for viscose preparation, wet spinning of fibers, hollow fibers, and tube-like films is available on a min-plant scale. Research focused on raw materials testing, process optimization with regard to economic and ecological aspects, structural analysis of cellulose during processing, and structure–property relations of fibers and films. Similar to the viscose process, cellulosic fibers can be produced via cellulose carbamate as an environmentally friendly route. In a close cooperation of Fraunhofer IAP with industrial partners, a specific process based on cellulose carbamate was developed on a pilot plant scale, giving fiber properties close to those of conventional viscose fibers. In recent decades the N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO)-technology turned out to be a nonderivatizing commercial alternative to the still dominant viscose route. From the very beginning, Fraunhofer IAP has been engaged in investigating the structure formation of cellulose fibers precipitated from NMMO-water solution, revealing structural reasons for the fibrillation tendency of these fibers and means to overcome them. Starting from fiber formation via dry-jet wet spinning, for the first time the blown film formation and the meltblown nonwovens technology were developed for cellulosics on a pilot plant scale at Fraunhofer IAP. Based on the elastic behavior of the dope at elevated temperatures, cellulose can be processed like a melt in the air-gap, offering new possibilities of shaping cellulose like meltable mass polymers. Combining cellulose carbamate with NMMO-monohydrate as a solvent, higher polymer concentrations in the dope and outstanding mechanical properties of the resulting fibers were achieved.     

Thermal degradation of lyocell,modal and viscose fibers under aggressive conditions

Lyocell, modal and viscose fibers were subjected to mercerization or to solar degradation. The ulterior thermal degradation was analyzed by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Thermal analysis shows wide exothermic processes that began between 250 and 300°C corresponding to the main thermal degradation and are associated to a depolymerization and decomposition of the regenerated cellulose. Thermal degradation was analyzed as a function of concentration and time. Lyocell fiber is the most stable under thermal degradation conditions. Furthermore, mercerized samples are initially more degraded and present a lower thermal stability.     

Multipurpose nonwoven viscose/polypropylene fabrics: Effect of fabric characteristics on sorption and dielectric properties

In this work, sorption and dielectric properties of viscose/polypropylene multipurpose nonwoven fabrics were examined. The analysis of sorption behavior showed that the changes of the water absorptive capacity, the height of capillary rise and water retention value are in a function of viscose fiber content, total porosity, the pore size and used web bonding process. It is observed that dielectric properties at frequencies from 30 Hz to 140 kHz, for samples exposed to different relative air humidity and wet samples, are dependent on viscose fiber content, web bonding process, frequency of electric field and bulk free water content. The effective dielectric permeability of wet samples rapidly decreases with an increase in frequency up to 3 kHz while spectra of the AC specific electrical conductivity showed a plateau above 13 kHz. It is also observed that the dielectric properties of wet samples increase by several orders of magnitude compared to dry samples. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2018 , 56, 947–957     

Splitting tendency of cellulosic fibers. Part 3: splitting tendency of viscose and modal fibers

The splitting tendency of viscose and modal fibers in aqueous alkali solutions of LiOH, NaOH, KOH and TMAH was investigated. The viscose fibers splitted up to 5–7 fibrils, whereas modal fibers splitted up to 2–4 fibrils depending on alkali type and concentration. The fibrillar structure of lyocell enables it to split more (15–20 fibrils) than viscose and modal fibers. Splitting occurs where internal stress of fiber is high due to different alkali or void distribution inside fiber. The splitting test couldn’t be achieved for viscose and modal fibers between 1 and 5 M concentration of NaOH and TMAH solutions due to breakage of fibers during test. Above 5 M concentration, no split can be observed due to even distribution of alkali inside fiber. Paper presented at the 7th World Textile Conference, AUTEX 2007, Tampere, Finland, 26–28 June 2007. Christian-Doppler Laboratory of Textile and Fiber Chemistry of Cellulosics is a Member of European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE), www.epnoe.org     

Xylan enriched viscose fibers

In this study, a new xylan enriched viscose fiber was developed. A high molecular weight xylan with a degree of polymerization of 150–200 was added during a late stage of the viscose production process. The xylan deriving from a cold caustic extraction (CCE) of an eucalypt paper pulp was introduced to the process after xanthation and thus neither objected to any degradation conditions during alkalization nor to the xanthation step. About 90 % of the added xylan was transferred to the final fiber. A xylan content of up to 7.5 % was achieved. Fiber properties like strength showed a comparable level to the reference fibers while the water retention value was clearly raised due to the higher content of hemicelluloses. The hemicellulose distribution over the fiber cross section was investigated by enzymatic peeling. Even though a segregation of the different polysaccharides was observed, the goal of a good blending of CCE-xylan into cellulosic fibers with new interesting features was achieved.     

Electron treatment of wood pulp for the viscose process

Electron processing is currently being evaluated by several viscose producers for integration into their process. The viscose industry converts dissolving wood pulp into products such as staple fibre, filament, cord, film, packaging, and non-edible sausage casings. These materials are used in the clothing, drapery, hygiene, automobile, food, and packaging industries. Viscose producers are facing increasingly high production costs and stringent environmental regulations that have forced some plants to close. Electron treatment of wood pulp can significantly reduce the amounts of chemicals used for producing viscose and the production of hazardous pollutants. Acsion Industries has worked with companies worldwide to demonstrate the benefits of using electron treated pulp for producing viscose (rayon). This paper describes the viscose process, the benefits of using electron treatment in the viscose process, and Acsion’s efforts in developing this technology.