Machine performance for producing plasma

The field of industrial plasma engineering has grown in recent years. The uses are motivated by plasma s ability to accomplish industrially relevent results more efficiently and cheaply than competing processes. The research program concerning plasma treatment of textile materials was launched at the Polish Textile Institute in 1973 to improve the soil release properties of double jersey fabrics from textunsed polyester yams. The first experiments with wool date back to 1980 to replace the chlorination in fabric preparation for printing. Tliree machines for continuous plasma treatment of wool top have been developed as follows  

For example, the shrink proofing of wool using corona discharge has already reached a stage of commercial production [24]. 

14-1 to 14-5 describe the typical reactors of different kinds for producing plasma. The description given in the caption is self-explanatory. Fig. 14-1 shows 

The practical advantages of textile plasma exposure have been documented by Rakowski [9], who compared conventional chlorination process with a new process based on the exposure of wool to a low pressure plasma using the apparatus shown schematically in Fig. 14-6. Wool tow is fed continously into a vacuum 

The discontinuous (batch) machine (Fig. 14-9) for fabric treatment developed 

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