Scouring linen

The possible benefits of prescouring to remove such contaminants should also be considered. Alkaline pretreatments, including boiling off of cotton, have a profound effect on AOX values after chlorite bleaching (Tables 10.21 and 10.22). It can be beneficial, from the viewpoint of both AOX and whiteness, to follow a chlorite bleach with a peroxide treatment. Linen yarns after an alkaline scour and chlorite bleach gave a whiteness value of 63.9 with an unacceptably high AOX value of 8.0 ppm. These results were improved to 78.5 and 1.2 ppm respectively after peroxide treatment [224]-... 

Linen can be successfully bleached using a process consisting of scouring, alkaline hydrogen peroxide bleach and a peracetic acid bleaching stage. 

Polyester/long-staple fibres are used in the linen industry, where yams may be of either the stretch broken or unbroken type, but more commonly of the latter. The linen component of the blend may be of bleached or unbleached fibre and yams spun from unbleached fibre may be bleached before weaving. Most fabrics in this blend are woven on sized (singles) warps. Unmodified warp sizes are removed by enzyme treatment and non-cellulosic matter is removed by an alkaline scour. 

Home, household, cleaning Bed and table linens, furnishings, fabric softeners, filters, food wraps, tea bags, scouring media, wipes, dusters, etc. 

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