March 29, 2010
Agents
Today I will describe about the flame retardant finishes on Polyester of cotton blend fabric. Polyester fiber is self extinguished by melt drip, but in case of Polyester/Cotton blend, cotton burns to skeleton of black carbonaceous char on which molten drips of polyester sticks and gives scaffolding effect, heat is transferred to cotton char and [...]
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March 23, 2010
Chemical
Today I am going to discuss about Flame Retardant Finishing process on Textile Materials like Textile Cotton, Polyester fiber and fabrics. The burning cycle of polymeric material consist of 3 steps which is shown below- If a polymeric material is caught by fire, the polymer absorb heat and melts which is the 1st step (Condensed [...]
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