Evaluation of Economical and Ecological Aspects of Denim Garments Dyeing with Fluorescent Dye ()
1. Introduction
Bangladesh is in 4th position in textile in world survey [1]. In our country mainly woven and knit fabrics are used in garments sector. Dyed fabric or white fabrics are used in garments sector. Their almost all dye used in Bangladesh. Nowadays the application of fluorescent dye for both woven and knitted fabrics are increasing day by day for its brilliance color appearance although the fastness properties are not so good.
There are several very early reports of the usual fluorescent brilliance of certain dyes when applied to natural textile fiber, the most pronounced effect being obtained on silk. The greenish-yellow fluorescent and it’s orange to red halogenated derivatives (eosin) were among the dyes but there practical use was limited by inadequate fastness properties. The brilliant bluish red rhodamines were found to exhibit rather better fastness properties on textiles and they are the most important classes of fluorescent dyes for a wide range of application. Research aimed at producing new fluorescent dyes for using in the coloration of textile, coating and plastics has continued in recent years with the objectives of extending the available product shade range enhancing fluorescent intensity and improving other useful application properties such as light fastness and thermal stability. In addition several new applications have emerged which specifically exploit light emission properties of fluorescent dyes [2]. Techniques involving the use of specific fluorescent dyes are of immense importance in biological and medical research providing a useful Lolo in the search for new biologically active compounds and the potential for the development of new diagnostic methods [3]. It is difficult to arrive at a precise definition of what constitutes a fluorescent dye. Florescent dye is a chemical that contains a lot of property. Especially it is renowned for its special photo physical property. A lot of people are trying to implement this dye on textile field. TENCEL® (Lyocell) and other man-made cellulosic fibers using a fluorescent dye molecular probe [4]. Only TENCEL shows a significant difference between dried and never-dried fibers and it is mainly due to the structure of TENCEL. But if it is done on the other method it expects that it may bring an outstanding result. The use of hemi cyanine dyes to bring the effect that is similar to fluorescent effect [5]. The results showed that those dyed acrylic fabrics using hemi-cyanine dyes had obvious fluorescent effect in the spectra range 550 - 750 nm. But the effect that is brought by florescent is not same here. So it is possible to make an experiment by using fluorescent dye in the process reduction method that brings an effect in the spectra range 550 - 750 nm. An improvement in fastness to sublimation; washing and perspiration (both acidic and alkaline) were observed but there was no general improvement in light fastness compared with the parent compounds [6]. The fluorescent azo disperse dyes were applied on polyester fiber and they finally probe that it enhances various fastness property [7]. Another experiment was carried out on wool, silk and nylon with fluorescent acid azo dyes and obtained photo physical properties increased but no fastness property was noticed [8]. The maximum fluorescent reflectance would reach under acid medium dyeing (pH = 5), adding fluorescent brightener can obviously raise the reflectance [9]. At the same time other properties remain constant. So it would be very interesting if it is possible to increase other properties with the reflectance property. The experimental results show that more complete chromatogram of fluorescent acrylic yarn can be obtained with suitable proportion of mixed dyestuff in combination dyeing [10]. The purpose of this research is to reduce the process steps of fluorescent dyeing of denim garments without changing fabric properties including ecological and economical benefit.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials
The investigation has been carried out with 100% cotton 3/1 twill denim fabric. The yarn count was 7 s/1 carded yarn, the fabric weight per unit area was 372 g/m2, EPI 68 and PPI 38 respectively. The fabric was scoured and bleached by caustic soda and hydrogen per oxide in a single bath stage with the standard recipe [11]. Then the denim fabrics were dyed with fluorescent dye in various shade percentage.
2.2. Methods
2.2.1. Pretreatment Process
The denim cotton fabric has been subjected to scouring and bleaching process for removal natural impurities such as wax, pectin, fat, oil, pigment etc from cotton fibers [12]. Here scouring and bleaching was carried out by using suitable recipe (Table 1) with maintaining proper time and temperature. After pretreatment the fabric was washed off two times i.e. hot wash and cold wash and then dried. Then the pretreated denim fabric was used for the experimental process. The same pretreated sample has been used for existing process and
Table 1. Recipe of scouring and bleaching process.
also for the proposed process.
2.2.2. Dyeing
1) Existing Process The pretreated fabric was treated with 5 gm/l catanizer (Cat MDN-96, Texodyes Company, Bangladesh) at 50˚C temperature for 20 minutes in pH 8.5. Then the dye bath was prepared by 10% and 15% of fluorescent red, fluorescent yellow and fluorescent blue separately and combined in the liquor ratio 1:10. After catanizing, the fabric was performed cold wash. Then the sample was added to each dye bath and dyeing was commenced 10 minutes at room temperature then raised temperature to 60˚C for 20 minutes. The dyed sample was washed with cold water and treated with 3 gm/l binder for 5 minutes and finally cold wash at room temperature and then dried in oven.
2) Proposed Process The pretreated fabric was treated with 5 gm/l catanizer (Cat MDN-96, Texodyes Company, Bangladesh) at 50˚C temperature for 20 minutes in pH 8.5. Then the dye bath was prepared by 10% and 15% of fluorescent red, fluorescent yellow and fluorescent blue separately and combined in the liquor ratio 1:10. After catanizing, the fabric was performed cold wash. Then the sample was added to each dye bath and dyeing was commenced 20 minutes at temperature 60˚C with 3 gm/l binder. Finally the dyed fabric was performed cold wash at room temperature and then dried in oven.
2.2.3. Fabric Parameter Test
Treated all fluorescent dyed denim fabric were conditioned in 65% RH and at 20˚C for 24 hours before testing according to ASTM D1776 [13]. Shade matching was performed by data color machine. Dye yield capacity (k/s) of the fabric was tested according to kubel-kumung theory by data color machine. Fabric brightness test was also performed by data color machine. The values for color fastness were rated with a grey scale for color change and color staining according to AATCC test method 61 [14]. SEM was studied using a scanning electron microscope (model-S 3400N, Hitachi, Japan).
3. Result and Discussion
3.1. Color Difference Measurement
Calculation of small color Differences for acceptability CMC (Color Measurement Committee) values for different shade percentages are estimated from the dyed fabrics by existing process & proposed process. The results are shown (Table 2).
CIE (Commission Internationale de I’Eclairage) color coordinates include color qualities in terms of L* (lightness and darkness), a* (redness and greenness), b* (yellowness and blueness), c* (chroma) and H (hue) of the fabrics are shown in Table 2. The ΔE values of differently dyed fabrics. ΔE value contains the information of color depth, shade, and the hue of a sample. ΔE value is calculated by using the CIE L*, a*, and b* values with the equation ΔE = (ΔL*2 + Δa*2 + Δb*2)1/2 where ΔL*, Δa*, and Δb* values were the difference between L*, a*, and b* values of a pair of color standard and sample. The larger the ΔE value, the greater will be the color difference between this pair of color standard and sample. In this case the color difference was expected because the CMC value was less than 1.0 after dyeing existing and proposed process. The experiment was carried out under light source of D65 at 10˚ and the result shows the satisfactory result remarks as “pass”.
3.2. Color Fastness to Rubbing
In this project work color fastness to rubbing assessments are done for both fabrics dyed by existing process and proposed process. This test was designed to determine the degree of color which may be transferred from the surface of a colored fabric to a specify test cloth for rubbing which could be dry and wet. The dyed fabric was subjected to test fastness to rubbing. This test result showed in Table 3, where good rubbing fastness for 10% and 15% shade of proposed process compared to existing process dyed of denim fabrics. Because the time for migration of dye was more in proposed process. The experiment was carried out according to the ISO105X12 method. Table 3 shows the test results.
3.3. Color Fastness to Wash
In this experiment color fastness to wash assessments are used for dyed fabric both existing and proposed process. The resistance of a material to change in any of its color characteristics, when subjected to washing is called color fastness to washing. In the test, change in color of the textile and also staining of color on the adjacent fabric were assessed.
Color fastness was usually assessed separately with respect to fading and staining. This test shows (Figure 1) good to excellent wash fastness for color changed and staining of the proposed process compared to the existing process. Because the reaction of proposed process has combined than the existing process.
3.4. Power Consumption
The power requirement for proposed process is less than existing process. Table 4 shows the comparison
Figure 2 indicates that the power requirement in proposed process is less than in existing process which is about 25% .The evaluation was carried out for 100 kg garments.