Polyester

Background

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Polyester is used in the manufacture of many products, including clothing, home furnishings,Wall Mat Indoor Playground Fitting, computer and recording tapes, and electrical insulation.Globe Turntable Indoor Playground Equipment. It does not absorb moisture, but does absorb oil;The Interesting Spider Tower Indoor Playground Equipment-, soil-, and fire-Trampoline Boxing Indoor Playground Equipment. Its low absorbency also makes it naturally resistant to stains.Animal Roller Indoor Playground Electric Equipment,Roller Indoor Playground Electric Equipment.Ship Turnplate Indoor Playground Electric Equipment, and not damaged by mildew.Animal Turnplate Indoor Playground Electric Equipment, nonallergenic insulator, so the material is used for filling pillows, quilting, outerwear, and sleeping bags.

History

In 1926,Snowman Turnplate Indoor Playground Electric Equipment-based E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.Watermelon Turnplate Indoor Playground Electric Equipment. This early research, headed by W.H. Carothers,Turnplate Indoor Playground Electric Equipment, 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,Animal Turntable Indoor Playground Electric Equipment. The company conducted some further developmental work, and in 1951, began to market the fiber under the name Dacron.Motorcycle Turntable Indoor Playground Electric Equipment,Robot Turntable Indoor Playground Electric Equipment. 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.Aircraft Turntable Indoor Playground Electric Equipment, though PCDT is more elastic and resilient. PCDT is suited to the heavier consumer uses, such as draperies and furniture coverings.Horse Turntable Indoor Playground Electric Equipment.

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,Bicycle Turntable Indoor Playground Electric Equipment. In this process, ethylene is the polymer, the chemical building block of polyester,Indoor Playground Electric Equipment.

The Manufacturing
Process

Polyester is manufactured by one of several methods.Children Trampoline Indoor Playground. The four basic forms are filament,Kids Trampoline Indoor Playground, tow, and fiberfill. In the filament form,Adult Trampoline Indoor Playground, producing smooth-200-300 Square Meters Forest Theme Indoor Playground.300-500 Square Meters Forest Theme Indoor Playground, filaments are cut to short,100-200 Square Meters Colorful Theme Indoor Playground.100-200 Square Meters British Theme Indoor Playground. 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.100-200 Square Meters Ocean Theme Indoor Playground.

Manufacturing Filament Yarn

Polymerization

• 1 To form polyester, dimethyl terephthalate is first reacted with ethylene glycol in the presence of a catalyst at a temperature of 302-410°F (150-210°C).
• 2 The resulting chemical, a monomer (single, non-repeating molecule) alcohol, is combined with terephthalic acid and raised to a temperature of 472°F (280°C). Newly-100-200 Square Meters Macaron Theme Indoor Playground,300-500 Square Meters Macaron Theme Indoor Playground, is extruded through a slot to form long ribbons.

Drying

• 3 After the polyester emerges from polymerization,100-200 Square Meters Space Theme Indoor Playground. The material is cut into tiny chips and completely dried to prevent irregularities in consistency.

Melt spinning

• 4 Polymer chips are melted at 500-518°F (260-270°C) to form a syrup-like solution.200-500 Square Meters Space Theme Indoor Playground, which are usually round,Castle Theme Indoor Playground. The number of holes in the spinneret determines the size of the yarn,Children Small Indoor Playground.
• 5 At the spinning stage, other chemicals may be added to the solution to make the resulting material flame retardant, antistatic, or easier to dye.

Drawing the fiber

• 6 When polyester emerges from the spinneret,Children Driving School Playground. The stretching forces the random polyester molecules to align in a parallel formation. This increases the strength, tenacity, and resilience of the fiber. This time, when the filaments dry,Sand Pond Indoor Playground.
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Winding

• 8 After the polyester yarn is drawn, it is wound on large bobbins or flat-wound packages, ready to be woven into material.

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Drawing tow

• 1 Newly-Flange Bolt Insulation Kits.Flange Insulation Kit Gaskets.

Crimping

• 2 Drawn tow is then fed into compression boxes,Pipe Flange Insulation Kits, at a rate of 9-15 crimps per inch (3-6 per cm).Phenolic Flange Insulation Kits.

Setting

• 3 After the tow is crimped, it is heated at 212-302°F (100-150°C)Flange Insulation Kits.Piping Flange Isolating Gaskets and Kits.

Cutting

• 4 Following heat setting,Flange Insulation Gasket Kits. Polyester that will be blended with cotton is cut in 1.25-1.50 inch (3.2-3.8 cm) pieces; for rayon blends, 2 inch (5 cm)Piping Flange Isolating Gaskets and Kits.Flange Isolating Gasket Kits, such ascarpet,polyester filaments are cut into 6 inch (15 cm)Flange Insulation Kit Gasket.

The Future

High Temperature Flange Insulation Kits,8 Flange Isolation Kit's fastest-growing fiber.6 Flange Insulation Kit. 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,Phenolic Flange Insulation Kits, was introduced to the public in 1991. More luxurious and versatile than traditional polyester,Pipeline Flange Insulation Kits. Clothing designers such as Mary McFadden have created a line of clothes using this new form of polyester.Phenolic Flange Insulation Kits, a superfiber material used to make bulletproof vests. This type of polyester may eventually be used as composite materials for cars and airplanes.