Sizing of textiles

Starch acetates [9045-28-7] are made by reaction of starch with acetic anhydride. Starch acetates are used in foods to provide paste clarity and viscosity stabiHty at low temperatures. A waxy maize starch acetate is most commonly used. Waxy maize starch acetates for food use are often cross-linked. Acetylated starches are also widely used in warp sizing of textiles. 

Sodium silicate is used by the adhesives and sealing industries. It is used in the sizing of textiles and paper and as a detergent. Sodium silicate is also used in oil recovery operations and in drilling fluids. 

Gut Rubber. To produce cut mbber thread, smoked mbber sheet or crepe mbber is milled with vulcanizing agents, stabilizers, and pigments. This milled stock is calendered into sheets 0.3—1.3 mm thickness, depending on the final size of the mbber thread desired. Multiple sheets are layered, heat-treated to vulcanize, then sHt into threads for textile uses (Fig. 2). Individual threads have either square or rectangular cross-sections. 

Com and rice starches have been oxidized and subsequently cyanoethylated (97). As molecular size decreases due to degradation during oxidation, the degree of cyanoethylation increases. The derivatized starch shows pseudoplastic flow in water dispersion at higher levels of cyanoethylation the flow is thixotropic. Com and rice starches have been oxidized and subsequently carboxymethylated (98). Such derivatives are superior in the production of textile sizes. Potato starch has been oxidized with neutral aqueous bromine and fully chemically (99) and physically (100) characterized. Amylose is more sensitive to bromine oxidation than amylopectin and oxidation causes a decrease in both gelatinization temperature range and gelatinization enthalpy. 

Sodium chlorite oxidation of com and rice starches is recommended for the production of textile sizes (101) and oxidized starch is recommended as a hardening agent in the immobilization of microbial cells within gelatin (102). 

Dicyandiamide reduces the viscosity of certain coUoidal solutions. This property is of commercial significance ia the manufacture of glues and adhesives, ia the coating and sizing of paper and textiles, and ia the conditioning of phosphate drilling muds (see Petroleum). This action may prove useful ia other appHcations where control of viscosity is important (54). 

The kieis aie of varying sizes and production units can handle from 225—1400 kg, adjusting proportionally the pump size and speed. Most machines are highly versatile so as to accommodate the kind of textile being dyed they are able to control rate of temperature rise, volume ofHquor flow, and time of dye apphcation. 

Fire or explosion hazards require special motor enclosures. Hazards include combustible gases and vapors such as gasoline dust such as coal, flour, or metals that can explode when suspended in air and fibers such as textile lint. The land of motor enclosure used depends on the type of hazard, the type and size of motor, and the probability of a hazardous condition occurring. Some available enclosures are explosionproof motors, which can withstand an internal explosion force-ventilated motors cooled with air from a safe location and totallv enclosed motors cooled bv air-to-water heat exchangers and pressurized with safe air, instrument air, or inert gas,... 

Textile motors Crane motors Determining the size of motor Sugar centrifuge motors Motors for deep-well pumps Motors for agricultural application Surface-cooled motors Torque motors or actuator motors Vibration and noise level Service factors Motors for hazardous locations Specification of motors for Zone 0 locations Specification of motors for Zone I locations Motors for Zone 2 locations Motors for mines, collieries and quarries Intrinsically safe circuits, type Ex. f Testing and certifying authorities Additional requirements for ciritical installations Motors for thermal power station auxiliaries Selection of a special-purpose motor... 

In view of the immense commercial importance of phthalocyanines as pigments, it is perhaps surprising that only a few are of importance as textile dyes. This is primarily due to the size of the molecules they are too large to allow penetration into many fibres, especially the synthetic fibres polyester and polyacrylonitrile. An example of a phthalocyanine dye which may be used to dye cellulosic substrates such as cotton and paper is C. I. Direct Blue 86 (96), a disulfonated copper phthalocyanine. In addition, a few blue reactive dyes for cotton incorporate the copper phthalocyanine system as the chromophoric unit (Chapter 8). 

Rather more specialised sizes are used in certain applications. For example, a reactive poly(dimethylsiloxane) (section 10.10.2) is recommended for the sizing of some industrial textile fabrics [173]. 

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