1. Pre-treatments of pre-consumer cotton-based textile waste for production of textile fibres in the cold NaOH(aq) and cellulose carbamate processes
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Sari Asikainen, Tobias Köhnke, Carina Olsson, Marianna Vehviläinen, Marjo Määttänen, Sara Stibing, Ali Harlin, Maria Gunnarsson, and Helena Wedin
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Pre treatment ,Carbamate ,Textile ,Polymers and Plastics ,Spinning ,medicine.medical_treatment ,02 engineering and technology ,Cotton ,Raw material ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,medicine ,Recycling ,Cellulose ,Dissolution ,Cold alkali ,business.industry ,NaOH(aq) ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Pulp and paper industry ,0104 chemical sciences ,Synthetic fiber ,chemistry ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Cellulose carbamate ,SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production - Abstract
Recycling of textiles is of importance due to the large amount of waste generated from the increasing consumption and use worldwide. Cotton-rich pre-consumer textiles are considered as potential raw material for production of man-made regenerated fibres, but demands purification from the blends with synthetic fibres as well as the dyes and finishing chemicals. In this study we explore the use of different pre-treatments of pre-consumer textiles to meet specific parameters for production of fibres in the cold NaOH(aq) or cellulose carbamate process. The pre-treatments consisted of different bleaching sequences and were performed on both uncoloured and coloured pre-consumer textiles. For the uncoloured textile, degree of polymerisation and amount of inorganic content was efficiently reduced making the material suitable for both the cold NaOH(aq) and the cellulose carbamate process. In case of the coloured textile, the pre-treatments were able to remove the dye and decrease the inorganic content as well as reduce the degree of polymerisation but only sufficiently enough for production of fibres in the cellulose carbamate process. The work was able to prove a fibre-to-fibre concept while further optimisation of the regeneration steps is expected to improve the mechanical properties of the produced fibres in future studies.
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- 2021
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