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In the textile industry, man made fiber, Lyocell is one on the top of the list. It has unique bouncy, cool & drape hand touch like no other material could be. Especially the peach skin effect that form by dyeing and mechanical washing, so called fibrillation process. The tradition method of fibrillation is done by mechanical washing, fabric in rope form of shapes rotate consistently in dyeing lot. With certain amount of soda, degrees of temperature, friction level and timing conditions to control the production. Final step is enzyme washing which elevated the extra / left over fibers the caused while fibrillation. However, the tradition method has been difficult to control the quality, has limited production capacity and higher cost wise. This research is base on open width production by using NaOH & MgCl2•6H2O to dissolve fibers. The advantage is to stabilize the quality consistently, lower the loss & cost, increase the production capacity and develop finishing for garment washing. The purpose of this research is focusing on dyeing industry, using different level of alkalinity of NaOH dissolving liquid under mercerizing finishing process with tension. Then apply with MgCl2•6H2O hemolysic HC1 method under high temperature which will cause fiber break down. Then apply with different examination and testing, and came up with result of when Tencel® experience NaOH finishing, amorphous region will be damaged and the changes of increasing of orientation but decreasing of fabric strength & moisture rate. Observation of Tencel® under desizing, setting & NaOH finishing, the a Peak will be increased from 356℃ to range of 361℃ & 368℃, it appears that when orientation increased, the fabric strength will be decreased. And the higher the concentration the stiffer hand it will gets. The mercerize process could not be same as cotton fabric with 22B’e~24B’e, suggested alkalinity as 13B’e~15B’e. And with MgCl2•6H2O finishing, the fibrillation could be achieve, but has to coordinate with mercerize & washing afterwards as a combination. The elevation of dissolved Cellulose is done by light scrub or abrasion & friction under washing. At the same time, extremely fine & short fiber will be produced. And now the fabric has snow white & peach skin effect just the same as the fibrillation done by mechanical washing. (Tradition way of fibrillation) The fibrillation requirement & conditions of MgCl2•6H2O had to depends on the concentration , temperature & timing. It will had different results of level of peach skin & strength. So the key point is to consider the balancing between peach skin & fabric strength as basis. The conclusion for this research is that the most ideal combination as followed, when the mercerizing is at 13B’e, concentration of MgCl2•6H2O at 20Gram/Liter & temperature at 180℃ with 120 seconds.
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