High performance textiles filtration

High performance textiles for industrial filtration 245 Table 7.4 Fibres and their properties (liquid filtration)... 

What do we think of when we hear fiber Clothing, certainly, and other textiles such as sheets and blankets, curtains and upholstery. Some fiber goes into carpeting—for offices, homes, automobiles, and recreational vehicles. Automobile, truck, and bus tires are strengthened with the use of fibers called cords. Some fiber is used for industrial purposes such as insulation and filtration. Hollow fibers that act as membranes are used in the desalination of seawater by reverse osmosis and in kidney dialysis. As we have already seen, extremely high-strength fibers are used to make bulletproof safety equipment and to reinforce polymers for high performance ap-... 

Polyesters, such as PET are now widely used in the manufacture of fibers for textiles and other applications. While PET has many desirable properties that make it suitable for manufacturing fibers, there is a continuing need for polyester fibers that have improved properties, or properties that are different from PET, thereby opening new uses for polyester fibers. For example, PEN has found applications in high performance sailcloth materials or in industrial filtration applications. Micro fibers can be obtained from fibers using a laser thinning method. ... 

In contrast to common clothing and home textiles, so-called technical textiles are a growing and important market for high performance products. Technical textiles find application in fields as diverse as medical engineering, aerospace and automotive industry, modem architecture and constmction, filtration, and transport systems. Increasingly super-hydrophobic character is required for these products to... 

New Fibers Textile Corp. Taiwan. Development, manufacture, and marketing of a range of specialty silver and copper-coated fibers and filaments for high-performance technical and industrial textile and nonwoven fabrics in clean room, protection, filtration, geotechnical, carpet, and specialty apparel applications. Extensive technical information... 

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