Direct dyes fiber-reactive

Many aminonaphthalenesulfonic acids are important in the manufacture of azo dyes (qv) or are used to make intermediates for azo acid dyes, direct, and fiber-reactive dyes (see Dyes, reactive). Usually, the aminonaphthalenesulfonic acids are made by either the sulfonation of naphthalenamines, the nitration—reduction of naphthalenesulfonic acids, the Bucherer-type amination of naphtholsulfonic acids, or the desulfonation of an aminonaphthalenedi-or ttisulfonic acid. Most of these processes produce by-products or mixtures which often are separated in subsequent purification steps. A summary of commercially important aminonaphthalenesulfonic acids is given in Table 4. 

From an appHcations point of view, the sulfur dyes are between vat, direct, and fiber-reactive dyes. They give good to moderate lightfastness and good wetfastness at low cost and rapid processing (see Dyes, application and evaluation). 

Because of the limitations of direct dyes and the abiHty to use simple acid dye chromophores to give bright washfast dyeings, fiber-reactive dyes have become a weU-estabHshed, popular way of dyeing cellulose. A market of 56,000 t of reactive dyes was forecast for cellulose fibers in 1989 (18), and the growth rate of reactive dye consumption of 3.9% per annum is four times the growth rate of other dyes for ceUulosic fibers (19). 

Relative strength determination by solution measurement is difficult in the case of vat and sulfur dyes and leads to unreflable results in cases where some of the dye in the commercial product has no affinity for the fiber such as for certain direct and fiber-reactive dyes. 

Dyes Direct, vat. fiber-reactive, sulfur and pigment ... 

Azo dyes, characterized by the presence of one or more azo groups (-N=N-), are the most commercially important class of dyes. These compounds are synthesized using a diazoti-zation reaction in which a primary aromatic amine reacts with nitrous acid to form a diaz-onium salt. The diazonium compound then typically is coupled with phenols, napthols, aromatic amines, heterocycles, or a variety of other compounds containing active methylene groups. Azo dyes are used in acid, direct, disperse, fiber reactive, and mordant applications. 

It can be prepared either by using appropriate direct dyes or reactive dyes. In the latter case, pure linters (the raw material for high-quality paper) are suspended in water, and the solution of the reactive dye is added. For example, the dye 15 reacts via the sulfonic acid group in the side chain. The reaction mixture is then made alkaline and the dye reacts with the linters. After completion of the reaction, the fiber pulp is centrifuged, washed electrolyte-free, and processed on a paper machine to form the pH paper. Paper produced in this way is mostly bonded onto a plastic material and used as pH test strip. 

According to their chemical structures and the Cl system, dyes can be classified into 17 groups nitro dyes, triphenylmethane derivatives, xanthenes, acridine derivatives, quinoline derivatives, azines, ant-hraquinones, indigoid dyes, phthalocyanines dyes, oxydation bases, insoluble azo dye precursors, and azo dyes (classes XII-XVII). In practice, dyes are classified into different application classes disperse, acid, basic, direct, vat, fiber-reactive, sulfur, preme-tallic, solvent dyes, and naphthols. 

DrilevCB,JH. [IQ Am.] Oiganometal-lie compds. antimigrants for direct and fiber reactive dyes during batch operations. 

Levogen . [Miles/Organic Prods.] Cationic fixative fm direct and fiber reactive dyes. 

Uses Flocculant fixing agent for direct and fiber reactive dyes in textiles dye modifier textile antistat... 

Uses Chelating agent, dispersant for dyeing cotton and polyester/cotfon dyeings with direct or fiber-reactive dyes... 

Uses Dispersant and metal binder for Fe, Cu, Mn, Ca, and Mg, and other multivalent metals solubilizer for disperse, direct, and fiber reactive dyes dispersant for silicate cleanup machine cleaner raw material polyester trimer control and... 

Sulfonic Acid-Based Dyestuffs. Sulfonic acid-derived dyes are utilized industrially in the areas of textiles (qv), paper, cosmetics (qv), foods, detergents, soaps, leather, and inks, both as reactive and disperse dyes. Of the principal classes of dyes, sulfonic acid derivatives find utiUty in the areas of acid, azoic, direct, disperse, and fiber-reactive dyes. In 1994, 120,930 t of synthetic dyes were manufactured in the United States, of which 5,600 t were acidic (74). The three largest manufacturers of sulfonic acid-based dyes for use in the United States are BASF, Bayer, and Ciba-Geigy. 

Fig. 4. Carbocychc azo dyes. Disperse Yellow 3 [2832-40-8] (Cl 11855) (26) is used to dye polyester Reactive Orange 1 [6522-74-3] (Cl 17907) (27) is a cotton dye Direct Orange 26 [25188-23-2] (Cl 29150) (28) is a dye for paper Synacril Fast Red 2G [48222-26-0] (Cl 11085) (29) dyes acrylic fibers Acid...

Dyes for cellulose fiber include the direct, sulfur, vat, a2oic, and reactive dyes. R D activities of world dye manufacturers have been focused on the area of reactive dyes, because reactive dyes offer brighter shades and excellent wet-fastness and have been increasingly used for dyeing cotton. 

A reactive dye for ceUulose contains a chemical group that reacts with ionized hydroxyl ions in the ceUulose to form a covalent bond. When alkaH is added to a dyebath containing ceUulose and a reactive dye, ionization of ceUulose and the reaction between dye and fiber is initiated. As this destroys the equihbrium more dye is then absorbed by the fiber in order to re-estabUsh the equUibrium between active dye in the dyebath and fiber phases. At the same time the addition of extra cations, eg, Na+ from using Na2C02 as alkaH, has the same effect as adding extra salt to a direct dye. Thus the addition of alkaH produces a secondary exhaustion. 

Basic Theory of Fiber-Reactive Dye Application. The previously described mechanisms of dyeing for direct dyes apply to the apphcation of reactive dyes in neutral dyebaths. In alkaline solutions important differences are found. The detailed theoretical treatments are described elsewhere (6) but it is important to consider some of the parameters and understand how they influence the apphcation of fiber-reactive dyes. 

Electrolyte therefore plays three important roles increasing absorption in the neutral state, preventing desorption/promoting secondary exhaustion, and increasing the amount of ioni2ed ceHulose. Thus the amounts of salt used in the apphcation of fiber-reactive dyes are larger than for direct dyes. 

Dyeing is carried out by the method best suited to the fiber used as the outer sheath, eg, acid or premetallized dyes for nylon-based, reactive or direct dyes for cotton-based. 

Wool-Cellulasic Fibers. One of (he oldest fiber blends in (he textile market is (he combination of wool and cotton or wool and viscose. In a one-bath process, selected direct and acid dyes are applied at pH 4.5-5.0 at 98 ItXfC. A phenolsulfonie acid condensation prodact is added as a reserving agent, to prevent the direct dyes from dyeing the wool under acid conditions, if optimum wetfastness properties are required, fiber-reactive dyes can be applied to both fibers by use of a two-bath process. 

Reactive Dyes. These dyes form a covalent bond with the fiber, usually cotton, although they are used to a small extent on wool and nylon. This class of dyes, first introduced commercially in 1956 by ICI, made it possible to achieve extremely high washfastness properties by relatively simple dyeing methods. A marked advantage of reactive dyes over direct dyes is that their chemical structures are much simpler, their absorption spectra show narrower absorption bands, and the dyeings are brighter. The principal chemical classes of reactive dyes are azo (including metallized azo), triphendioxazine, phthalocyanine, formazan, and anthraquinone (see Section 3.1). 

The Benzo Fast Copper (I.G. Farbenindustrie) and the Cuprophenyl (Geigy) dyes are converted to insoluble copper complexes on the fiber by treating the dyeings with a copper salt. Copper complex formation on the fiber has strongly lost technical significance due to the copper content in dyehouse effluents. The mostly copper-containing Indosol direct dyes recently launched by Sandoz are cross-linked on and with the fiber by aftertreatment with a special reactive agent [35],... 

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