Cuprammonium rayon

Schweizer s reagent The dark blue solution obtained by dissolving Cu(OH)2 in concentrated ammonia solution. Used as a solvent for cellulose, the cellulose is precipitated on acidification. Used in the cuprammonium process for the manufacture of rayon. 

Asahi Chemical Industries (ACl, Japan) are now the leading producers of cuprammonium rayon. In 1990 they made 28,000 t/yr of filament and spunbond nonwoven from cotton ceUulose (65). Their continuing success with a process which has suffered intense competition from the cheaper viscose and synthetic fibers owes much to their developments of high speed spinning technology and of efficient copper recovery systems. Bemberg SpA in Italy, the only other producer of cuprammonium textile fibers, was making about 2000 t of filament yam in 1990. 

Dissolution of the cellulose in cuprammonium solution followed by acid coagulation of extruded fibre ( cuprammonium rayon —no longer of commercial importance). In this case the acid converts the cuprammonium complex back into cellulose. 

Glam-silber, n. polished silver (Min.) silver glance, argentite. -stahl, m. polished steel, -stkrke, /. gloss starch, -stoff, m. trade name of a cuprammonium rayon glazed or glossy fabric. 

Kupferoxyd, n. cupric oxide, copper(II) oxide, -ammoniak, n. ammoniacal copper oxide, cu-prammonium. -ammoniakkunstseide, -am-moniakzellulose, /. cuprammonium rayon, -hydrat, n. cupric hydroxide, copper(II) hydroxide. -salz, n. cupric salt, copper(II) salt. 

The presence of free sulphuric acid in rayon-spinning baths limits application of the austenitic steels, but they are used for acetylation of cellulose in the acetate process. They are also used for dissolving and spinning solutions in the cuprammonium processes. 

This term was originally intended to denote all kinds of man-made textile fibres, but is now applied only to cellulose types. Viscose rayon (regenerated from a solution of cellulose xanthate in sodium hydroxide) accounts for the greater part of world rayon production. Acetate rayon and cuprammonium rayon are relatively unimportant. 

A) Irradiance to a reactor was limited because the rectangular shape of the reactor contained cuprammonium rayon fiber and was made of glass for two flat sides and stainless steel for the edges. 

Cuprammonium rayon, 11 263—265 Cuprate oxides, 23 838-839 Cuprate superconductors, 23 837 Cupric bromide, physical properties of,... 

Amorphous Cellulose in Cotton and Cuprammonium Rayon by Periodate Oxidation"... 

Goldfinger and coworkers obtained the data shown in Table IX by this method. The difference in amorphous cellulose between linters and cotton is appreciable but attention is directed particularly to the behavior of cuprammonium rayon after being dried from water and after being... 

Physical or physico-chemical capability (Table 1), including mechanical strength, permeation, or sieving characteristics, is another important requirement of biomaterials. Cuprammonium rayon, for instance, maintains its dominant position as the most popular material for hemodialysis (artificial kidney). Thanks to its good mechanical strength, cuprarayon can be fabricated into much thinner membranes than synthetic polymer membranes as a consequence, much better clearance of low-molecular-weight solutes is achieved. 

Today rayon is made by either the viscose or the cuprammonium process. The latter process is based on Schweitzer s discovery in 1857 that it is possible to dissolve cellulose in cuprammonium hydroxide, the soln being due to the formation of a Cu cellulose complex. The mfg procedure involves processing the cuprammonium soln by filtration and deaeration prior to pumping it thru holes in a spinneret into si alkaline w which coagulates the Cu-cellulose soln into rayon filaments. The filaments are then stretched to the desired fineness (Ref 11). The viscose process is the most widely used because of its great versatility and low cost operation. 

Fig. 1.—Effect105 of Temperature on Uptake of Sulfur, Chlorine, and Nitrogen by Cuprammonium Rayon (on Tosylation in Presence of Pyridine during Four Days). (Taken from K. Hess and N. Ljubitsch, Ann., 507, 62 (1933).)...

Viscose rayon is but one variety of rayon, a more general term for derivatized or reconstituted cellulose. Other rayons include fiber prepared from collodion, cellulose acetate, and cellulose fiber regenerated from a cellulose-copper ammonium solution cuprammonium rayon) (Kauffman 1993). 

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