Wastewater Recycle and Reuse Potential for Indirect Discharge Textile Finishing Mills -- Volume 1. Technical Report.

A range of wastewater recycle and reuse technologies permits textile finishing facilities to decrease the volume of wastewater and the quantity of pollutants discharged to publicly owned treatment works. Many of these technologies have been demonstrated o

Textile Dyebath Reconstitution and Reuse.

Textile Dyebath Reconstitution and Reuse describes the application of an important wastewater recycle technology to the textile industry. After bench and pilot testing, testing under production conditions occurred at a large carpet mill in the Southeast.

Developmental Aspects of Textile Wet Processing Machinery

The textile industry's increasing awareness of environmental pollution has led to new textile chemical processing treatments. Excess sizing ends up in the effluent stream and contributes to the biochemical oxygen demand. To counteract this, the textile industry is switching to effluent-free sizing processes. Using captive water for desizi..

Wastes from Manufacture of Dyes and Pigments: Volume 1. Azo Dyes and Pigments (Benzidine and its Congeners Subsector)

Volume one of Wastes from Manufacture of Dyes and Pigments focuses on processes that involve azo dyes and pigments based on benzidine and its congeners. A study identified solid waste streams with the potential to contain hazardous materials. The solid re

Biologican Wastewater Treatment of Azo Dyes.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Toxic Substances evaluates chemicals under Section 4 of the Toxic Substances Control Act and Premanufacture Notification submissions under Section 5 of the act. Azo dyes accout for a significan

How to Save Energy in Dyeing and Finishing.

Establishing benchmark figures for energy and water savings in dyeing and finishing treatments and processes is complex. Companies should continue to examine how much energy they are using, where is it used, when is it used, why is it used, and how much should be used. Such examinations can frequently yield significant energy and monetary..

Neuro-Fuzzy Modelling of Spectroscopic Data. Part A - Modelling of Dye Solutions.

Researchers investigated the applicability of an adaptive network based neural fuzzy inference system for modeling spectroscopic absorbance data in the visible region. Investigators reconstructed the absorbance spectrum for a model system consisting of a solution of red and yellow leather dyes. Application of an adaptive neural fuzzy infe..

Neuro-Fuzzy Modelling of Spectroscopic Data. Part B - Dye Concentration Prediction

Researchers investigated the neuro-fuzzy modeling of spectroscopic data using wavelength and absorbance as model inputs and concentration as the output in the prediction application. Application of an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system used a training data set. The data set consisted of 342 absorbance values in a wavelength range of 40..

The Use of Non-Physical Standards in Colour Communication and Matching.

Researchers investigated the use of a spectrophotometer to generate reflectance data used for consistency in color communication, matching, and quality control. mesurement of the reflectance data for a series of ceramic tiles used a Datacolor SF600 spectr

Color Recipe Prediction by Artifical Neural Networks

Researchers investigated a neural network alternative to the conventional two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk for computer colorant formulation. An experiment used a multilayer feed forward network model to train several nets of different topologies via the Kubelka-Munk equation for reflection of opaque diffusers, then determined optical ..