During the washing & bleaching of cotton cloths lots of fibre loosened up and blocked the drains and created environmental issues... Can we utilize this resource? any idea?
Good day,
Of course you can use cotton fibers for papermaking. They are excellent for some uses.
One feature of this raw material is its dispersion in fiber length.
It would be necessary to perform a full characterization of your waste to know what you have.
You can find much information on the page:
http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mse/Textiles/Cotton%20fibers.htm
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yes we can use the same , better will be if used along with other fibers as blending
dear Maria & sartaj,
I will give it a try perhaps. as surtaj advised, will use as blend
thanks & regards
dear Dinkar what you have tried please let me know
as per literature iz concerned cotton pulp has better strength properties we can increase those strength properties more by blending it with other pulps depends upon which strength you wants
and second thing is that which pulping you are going to use
here i am attaching paper this may be helpful
processing these fibers by refining (beating) should help the sheet forming process..
Yes of course we can use cotton fibers for paper making after good-beating but the product will be expensive.
Cotton fibers are used in papermaking in papers of high quality e.g banknotes.
Cotton fibers as used per textile fabrics are to long for papermaking. So the papermakers has to cut the fibers at appropiate lengths or use the shorter parts of the cotton fiber named linters
The first rawmaterial for papermaking in Europe was old clothes, so there is a long tradition of making paper from cotton. Innventia’s new Global Outlook report, A Cellulose-Based Society, has a cover made from old jeans! See the link below:
http://www.innventia.com/en/Projects/Ongoing-projects/A-cellulose-based-Society1/Interview-Paul/
The fibres lost during washing and bleaching of cotton fibres might be interesting also for nanocellulose production. In the papermaking industry, research on paper sludge (which contains lost pulp fibres) is being made. See for example the article
Jonoobi, Mehdi, Aji P. Mathew, and Kristiina Oksman. "Producing low-cost cellulose nanofiber from sludge as new source of raw materials." Industrial Crops and Products 40 (2012): 232-238.
The below mentioned review discusses several related aspects. Happy new year.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315427845_Agricultural_Residues_Wastes_for_Manufacture_of_Paper_Board_and_Miscellaneous_Products_Background_Overview_and_Future_Prospects?_sg=Uu4mwgriwm6wL8ftXpL5UBggMxWBfZLdnE0gR8lNMmTh-fK3gfLEn3bLwrRvsJcAflz1lFUgYF30K-ofvYbpbm0KzDdY0Y-a2v4SLHPD.4stRPO63yIkvIMx1DqCKN-VDQWWyFJkAWRRxRWsUAghOhpup7jYjgG47ZJMXFPGLz3oc9aW6B9i_LZw6DXHkMg
1.Freeness or Degree SR of Cotton pulp and relevant consistency is a ver critical property.
2. Normally untreated Cotton fibres tend to form Strings or ropes which is undesirable .
3. Usually Comber Cotton is used for manufacture of Security papers like bank notes , passport papers.
4. Cotton linters - first cut or second cut is used to make traditional papers .
It will really depend on what your application is. In evaluating a fiber for it's quality as a papermaking fiber I would characterize it as follows;
1) fiber morphology. Fiber length distribution and coarseness.
2) response to refining: drainage characteristics, strength development, toughness (PFI mill study)
3) water retention value
4) charge demand
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