INVESTIGATION OF EFFECT OF PRE-CONSUMER RECYCLING ACRYLIC FIBER RATIO ON YARN AND FABRIC PROPERTIES

Year 2022, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 91 - 96, 31.12.2022

Esin Sarıoğlu , Serdar Saycan , Perihan Tekin , Halil İbrahim Çelik , Hatice Kübra Kaynak

Abstract

Within the framework of the European Green Deal, with the adoption of the circular economy model, it is necessary to investigate the recyclable possibilities of the wastes produced in the production of residual products. We can classify textile industry wastes as fiber, yarn, fabric waste, and post-consumer waste of the product in terms of raw materials. Raw material wastes formed during production before consumer use are expressed as pre-consumer, and wastes formed after use are expressed as post-consumer. Both pre-consumer and post-consumer wastes can be recycled and used at certain rates in the production of new textile products. In this way, the waste of textile products before and after use is recycled, contributing to the ecological environment. This study covers the recycling of 100% acrylic yarn waste, which is pre-consumer waste, by mechanical method and reuses in acrylic yarn production. For this purpose, Ne 20/1 yarns were produced with the same production parameters by blending acrylic fiber recycled from yarn waste with acrylic virgin fiber at 20, 30, and 40% ratios. Furthermore, a control sample was produced from virgin acrylic fiber. The tenacity, elongation, unevenness, IPI and hairiness properties of these produced yarns were determined. Single jersey fabrics were produced using these yarns in the SDL ATLAS sample knitting machine. Fabric weight, course and wale per cm, air permeability, bursting strength, bursting height and pilling properties were analyzed. Test results show that the blend ratio of recycled acrylic fiber ratio has a statistically significant effect on yarn properties. On the other hand, it was found that this parameter has no significant effect on fabric properties.

Keywords

European Green deal, pre-consumer, acrylic, recycling, yarn

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