Studies on reduction of yarn hairiness by nozzles in ring spinning and winding by airflow simulation |
| |
Authors: | R S Rengasamy Asis Patnaik Hemant Punekar |
| |
Institution: | 1. Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, 110016, New Delhi, India 2. Fluent India Private Limited, 411057, Pune, India
|
| |
Abstract: | Reduction of yarn hairiness by nozzles in ring spinning and winding is a new approach. Simulation of the airflow pattern inside
the nozzles provides useful information about actual mechanism of hairiness reduction. The swirling air current inside the
nozzles is capable of wrapping the protruding hairs around the yarn body, thereby reducing yarn hairiness. Since production
rate of winding is very high and the process itself increases yarn hairiness any method to reduce the hairiness of yarns at
this stage is a novel approach. A CFD (computational fluid dynamics) model has been developed to simulate the airflow pattern
inside the nozzles using Fluent 6.1 software. In this study, both S- and Z-type nozzles having an axial angle of 50° and diameter
of 2.2 mm were used for simulation studies. To create a swirling effect, four air holes of 0.4 mm diameter are made tangential
to the inner walls of the nozzles. S- and Z-twisted yarns of 30 tex were spun with and without nozzles and were tested for
hairiness, tensile and evenness properties. The total number of hairs equal to or exceeding 3 mm (i.e. the S3 values) for
yarn spun with nozzle is nearly 49–51 % less than that of ring yarns in case of nozzle-ring spinning, and 15 % less in case
of nozzle-winding, while both the yarn types show little difference in evenness and tensile properties. Upward airflow gives
best results in terms of hairiness reduction for nozzle-ring and nozzle wound yarns compared to ring yarns. Yarn passing through
the centre of the nozzle shows maximum reduction in S3 values. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|