Polyester



Background

Rubber Flooring, air, water, and petroleum. Developed in a 20th-century laboratory,Checker Rubber Floor Mat. In this reaction,Rubber Floor Mat.Skirt Board Rubber.

Polyester is used in the manufacture of many products, including clothing, home furnishings,Skirt Board Rubber, computer and recording tapes, and electrical insulation.FDA Rubber Sheet. It does not absorb moisture, but does absorb oil;FDA Rubber-, soil-, and fire-High Temperature Resistant Silicone Rubber Sheet. Its low absorbency also makes it naturally resistant to stains.Silicone Rubber,High Temperature Resistant EPDM Rubber Sheet.EPDM Rubber, and not damaged by mildew.High Temperature Resistant Viton Rubber Sheet, nonallergenic insulator, so the material is used for filling pillows, quilting, outerwear, and sleeping bags.

History

In 1926,FKM Rubber Sheeting-based E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.NR Rubber Sheet. This early research, headed by W.H. Carothers,Mining Rubber Products, the first synthetic fiber. Soon after, in the years 1939-41, British research chemists took interest in the du Pont studies and conducted their own research in the laboratories of Calico Printers Association, Ltd. This work resulted in the creation of the polyester fiber known in England as Terylene.

In 1946,Mining Rubber Sheets. The company conducted some further developmental work, and in 1951, began to market the fiber under the name Dacron.Abrasion Resistance Rubber Sheet,Black Oil Resistant NBR Rubber Sheet. Today, there are two primary types of polyester, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and PCDT (poly-1, 4-cyclohexylene-dimethylene terephthalate). PET, the more popular type, is applicable to a wider variety of uses.Black Nitrile Rubber Sheet, though PCDT is more elastic and resilient. PCDT is suited to the heavier consumer uses, such as draperies and furniture coverings.NBR Rubber.

Raw Materials

Polyester is a chemical term which can be broken intopoly,meaning many, andester,a basic organic chemical compound. The principle ingredient used in the manufacture of polyester is ethylene,Black SBR Cloth Insertion Rubber Sheet. In this process, ethylene is the polymer, the chemical building block of polyester,Red SBR Rubber Sheet.

Polyester

The Manufacturing
Process

Polyester is manufactured by one of several methods.Vulcanized SBR Rubber Sheet. The four basic forms are filament,Industrial Black SBR Rubber Sheet, tow, and fiberfill. In the filament form,SBR Rubber Sheet, producing smooth-SBR Rubber.Syringe Injector, filaments are cut to short,concrete repair injection.epoxy injection packer. Tow is a form in which continuous filaments are drawn loosely together. Fiberfill is the voluminous form used in the manufacture of quilts, pillows, and outerwear.Steel Mechanical Injection Packer.

Manufacturing Filament Yarn

Polymerization

Drying

Melt spinning

Polyester

Drawing the fiber

Winding

Injection Packer

epoxy resin surface packer, polymerization, drying, and melt spinning (steps 1-4 above) are much the same as in the manufacture of filament yarn. However, in the melt spinning process,grout injection packers. The rope-Low pressure injection packer.

Drawing tow

Crimping

Setting

Cutting

The Future

injection packer,epoxy injection packers's fastest-growing fiber.polyurethane foam injection packer. However, polyester has suffered an "image problem" since that time, and clothes made out of polyester were often devalued and even ridiculed. Several new forms of polyester introduced in the early 1990s may help revitalize the image of polyester. A new form of polyester fiber,Steel Mechanical Injection Packer, was introduced to the public in 1991. More luxurious and versatile than traditional polyester,pu injection packer. Clothing designers such as Mary McFadden have created a line of clothes using this new form of polyester.polyurethane foam injection packer, a superfiber material used to make bulletproof vests. This type of polyester may eventually be used as composite materials for cars and airplanes.

Where To Learn More

Books

Corbman, Bernard P.Textiles:aluminum injection packer.6th ed. Gregg Division, McGraw-Hill, 1983, pp. 374-92.

Encyclopedia of Textiles.3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980, pp. 28-33.

Polyester: Fifty Years of Achievement.State Mutual Book & Periodical Service, 1993.

Periodicals

Fellingham, Christine. "Will You Learn to Love Polyester?"Glamour,April 1992, p. 204.

Templeton, Fleur. "Show Me a Bulletproof Leisure Suit, In Pink."Business Week,July 6, 1992, p. 65.

Thomas, Marita. "At 50 Years, Polyester Gains New Fashion Vitality."Textile World,December 1993, p. 62+.

KristineM.Krapp

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User Contributions:

raghu t s
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Sep 19, 2006 @ 6:06 am
oil is more viscous than water how can you say polyster absorbs the oil
jasmin
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Aug 8, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
needs more diagrams of the process in which polyester is made
annonomus
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Oct 21, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
i thought it was awesome, gave me a lot of info for my science fair project
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Jun 22, 2011 @ 3:03 am
This is a very usefull page but do you now what is the energy input for making polyester?
Spinning of Polyester Filament Yarn

The polyester polymer produced from PTA and MEG is extruded in the form of a ribbon. This ribbon is then converted into chips.
These chips received in the bulk packing of 750 kgs to 1250 kgs

The wet chips are dried with hot dehumidified air in the continuous dryer and fed through a hopper to the extruder for melting at high temp 285 C.SJY-10 Rescue Tripod. In the form of continuous filaments

Each spinnerette contains 12 to 196 holes. A cool controlled air is blowing across the bunch of filaments for proper cooling.Rescue Tripod.Acrylate Agent High Pressure Injection Pump.
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the yarn produced is deoffed from the winders checked for the properties and packed in the pallets of 60 spools each.
Polyurethane High Pressure Crack Injection Pump??
good information, why polyester makes over lapping in drawing simplex and ring spinning process? and what is remedy ?
homa
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Sep 3, 2013 @ 4:04 am
to ajay:
High Pressure Injection Pump,High Pressure Steel Mechanical Injection Packer
Hammer Injection Packer,it is mainly for sticking filaments together
Enid Hartwig
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Nov 8, 2014 @ 6:06 am
Are either of the compounds cobalt dichloride or thiuram mix used in the manufacture of polyester or in the material itself. Have an allergy to these 2 compounds and am trying to trace what is causing my itch.
Gig
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 10:22 pm
With being chemically sensitive, I now know why I can not wear polyester clothes or have it in sheets. The itch and rash is horrible.
Mercy
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Oct 23, 2017 @ 8:08 am
What are the health risk of polyester and what chemicals cause them
kashiram Rote
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Jan 13, 2018 @ 12:00 am
Aluminum Injection Packers/c having some lubricants used then after cone winding at the viewing m/150MM High Pressure Steel Mechanical Injection Packer. New Nitrile Rubber.

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