Mojsov, Kiro (2017) Enzymatic treatment of wool fabrics - opportunity of the improvement on some physical and chemical properties of the fabrics. The Journal of the Textile Institute, 108 (7). pp. 1136-1143. ISSN 0040-5000 (Print), 1754-2340 (Online)
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Abstract
The enzymatic treatment of textiles significantly improves some of their physicochemical properties
as well as increases their aesthetic values and comfort of use. Enzymes are used in order to develop
environmentally friendly processes by reducing the concentration of chemical agents, water and
energy consumption. In the present study, an attempt was made to treat the wool fabric with different
concentrations (1, 3, and 5 g/L) of protease enzyme and observed the effects on physical and chemical
properties including softness, absorbency, pilling resistance, weight loss, tensile strength loss, water
retention, felting shrinkage, alkali solubility and urea-bisulphite solubility of wool fabric. The results
of pretreated and enzyme-treated samples are compared to those obtained for untreated wool fabric.
Enzyme-treated wool fabrics showed improvement in softness, absorbency, pilling resistance and felting
shrinkage and a slight increase in weight loss, tensile strength loss, alkali solubility and urea-bisulphite
solubility, and decrease in water retention of the fabric.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Wool fabric; protease enzyme; pretreatment;enzyme treatment; physical and chemical properties |
| Subjects: | Engineering and Technology > Industrial Biotechnology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Technology |
| Depositing User: | Kiro Mojsov |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2017 13:56 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2017 13:56 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/17923 |
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