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Textile Finishing Lab Report (9) : Title: Application of Water Repellent Finish

This lab report summarizes testing of a water repellent finish applied to cotton fabric both with and without a cross-linking agent. Water repellency was evaluated using a spray test both before and after multiple washings. The results showed that the finish applied with the cross-linking agent had higher water repellency ratings before and after washing. It was concluded that the cross-linking agent increased the durability of the finish and its ability to resist washing out. The report was submitted by six students to their professor and included an abstract, introduction, materials, methods, results, conclusion, and references.

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Textile Finishing Lab Report (9) : Title: Application of Water Repellent Finish

This lab report summarizes testing of a water repellent finish applied to cotton fabric both with and without a cross-linking agent. Water repellency was evaluated using a spray test both before and after multiple washings. The results showed that the finish applied with the cross-linking agent had higher water repellency ratings before and after washing. It was concluded that the cross-linking agent increased the durability of the finish and its ability to resist washing out. The report was submitted by six students to their professor and included an abstract, introduction, materials, methods, results, conclusion, and references.

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Textile finishing lab report (9)

Title: Application of water repellent finish

Submitted by

M.Abu Bakar Zafar 06-NTU-001


M. Afzaal Sadiq 06-NTU-077
Adnan Latif 06-NTU-103
Asad Jamil 06-NTU-107
Farooq Zia 06-NTU-121
Kashif Hayat 06-NTU-123

Submitted to

Sir. Kashif Iqbal

NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSITY FAISALABAD


Abstract
Water repellent finish is used to reduce surface tension of fabric surface. So that they repel water.
Water has surface tension of 72.8 dynes/cm. This finish causes sufficient reduction in surface
tension.Here water repellent finish was applied to woven bleached cotton fabric with and without
cross linking agent. Then it analysis was done using spray test. After that repeated washing was
done and again spray test was done. It was analyzed that finish applied by cross linker is more
durable than that applied without cross linking agent.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………
…2

1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………4
1.1. Background
…………………………………………………………………………4
1.2. Objectives.
……………………………………………………………..……………4
1.3. Theory
…………………………………………………………………………….…4
2. Equipments and materials ………………....…………………………………….…………4
2.1. Chemicals
…………………………………………………………….………………5
3. Procedure……….……………………...……………………………………………………5
4. Results………………………………………………………………………………………5
5. Conclusion…………………………………..………………………………………………6
6. Samples ……………………..………………………………………………………………6
7. References …………………………………………………………………………….……6

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1 Introduction

1.1. Background:

Finishes that repel water are important in all parts of the textile market- for clothing,
home and technical textiles. The purpose of this finish is self evident. Drops of water
should not spread on the surface of the textile and should not wet the fabric. The drops
should stay on the surface and easily drip off. It is achieved by using different product
groups. There are many tests to evaluate water repellent fabric but most common method
used is AATCC TM 22- Water repellency spray test. In this a treated fabric is stretched
taut, held at a 450 angle and sprayed with 250 ml of water from above. The resulting
wetting pattern, if any, is rated using photographic standards. This is a simple, rapid
method.

1.2. Objective:

 To apply the water repellent finish with and without cross-linking agent
 To evaluate the performance of finish by doing shower test
 To evaluate the durability of finish after multiple washing

1.3. Theory:

Repellent finishes achieve their properties by reducing the free energy at fiber surfaces. If
the adhesive interactions between a fiber and a drop of liquid placed on the fiber are
greater than the internal cohesive interactions within the liquid, the drop will not spread.
So, surface energy is decreased by using repellent finishes. Such finishes can be applied
by either mechanical incorporation of by using chemical technique. Chemical interaction
can be happened by the development of ionic bonding, covalent bonding and hydrogen
bonding.

2. Equipment and Materials

 Plastic beakers
 Stirrers
 Weighing balance
 Padder
 Stenter
 100 % Cotton fabric (woven)

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2.1. Chemicals
 Water repellent finish(Tubigaurd RWN) = 80 g/L
 Cross-linking agent (Repellan XLE) = 40 g/L

Application Method

Pad  Dry  Cure

Conditions

Drying = 110oC for 120 sec.


Curing = 160oC for 100 sec.

3. Procedure

i. A beaker was taken and in that measured amount of cross-linking agent was poured.
ii. After that 100 ml of water was added and stirred.
iii. Then measured amount of finish was added and again stirred.
iv. Beaker was filled up to 1000ml.
v. Then that fabric was padded on padder followed by drying and curing.
vi. This same procedure was adopted for applying finish without cross-linking agent.
vii. After that both samples were washed for 3 times according to the standard.

Washing Recipe

 Detergent = 5g/l
 Sodium carbonate = 2g/l
 Temp. = 600C
 Time = 30 min.
viii. Then again shower test was performed and results were compared.

4. Results

Water repellency rating


Repellent application Without cross linker With cross linker
Before Washing 80 90
After three washes 70 90
80 = wetting of specimen face at spray points.

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90 = random wetting of specimen face

70 = partial wetting of specimen face beyond spray points

5. Conclusion
 Crosslinker has increased the rating of water repelency. But crosslinker has
increased its durability after washing.
 By the application of finish surface energy of fabric is decreased leading to lower
adhesive force between fiber and water than the cohesive forces between water so
producing fabric that exhibits water repellency.
6. Samples

Without crosslinking agent With crossslinking agent

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7. Reference
Chemical finishing of textiles by W.D. Schindler and P.J. Hauser

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