The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Properties, Processing, and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780323995986 / Angielski

Seiko Jose; Sabu Thomas; Gautam Basu

Opis

The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Property and Applications explores the fundamental aspects of wool fibers as well as traditional and novel applications of wool in areas including polymer composites and technical textiles. Apart from textiles and garments, wool has long been used for various diversified applications due to its unique material properties. Wool is inherently fire resistant, antimicrobial, flexible and antibacterial, and as a natural material, it can be used to create environmentally sustainable products. This book explains basic and advanced topics related to wool fibers, from shearing to marketing, drawing on academic and industrial research from a range of subjects. Providing statistics, processing methods, and testing and characterization techniques for wool fiber, this book will help readers to use wool fibers to find new applications and solutions.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to wool technology : A brief introduction to wool and its processing technology
2. Wool production and statistics, Current market scenario :Recent statistics in wool production, export and imports, Current market potential of wool and woollen products
3. Wool fibre identification
4. Pre-processing of wool : Brief about shearing, cleaning, grading, scouring
5. Mechanical processing of wool
6. Wool Dyeing
7. Functional Finishes of Wool
8. Wool fibre morphology and chemical structure :The morphological characters of different breeds of wool, description on cuticle, cortex and medulla, their function
9. Quality evaluation of wool: Methods of evaluation of quality of wool, parameters, important standards
10. Chemical and Physical Properties of Wool
11. Physical and chemical modification of wool
12. Morphology studies using microscopic techniques : Advanced microscopic studies on wool
13. Spectroscopic studies on wool fibers
14. Thermal properties of wool: Thermal degradation studies, fire retardant properties
15. Sustainable Moth Repellent Finishing for Wool
16. Microbial attack and prevention methods :Microbial attack on wool fibre, causes, and remedies
17. Anti shrink finishing of woollens :Shrink resist treatment on woollens using various physical and chemical methods
18. Biodegradability and life cycle analysis of wool: Analysis of biodegradation of wool, wool fertilizers, life cycle studies
19. Applications of wool fibre for technical textiles : Recent product developments on woollens for technical textiles
20. Wool in composites : Wool fibre as a component in bio-composites
21. Sound insulation properties of wool fiber
22. Keratin extraction and its application: Extraction of wool keratin and application in diversified fields
23. Blending of wool with other fibres :Mixing of wool with other natural/synthetic fibres for different applications
24. Recycling of wool: Making wool more sustainable
25. By-products during processing of fibre and their use: Generation of by-products during wool processing and their utilization
26. Future prospective in woollens :Future prospective of wool and woollen products