Description
The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Property and Applications explores the fundamental aspects of wool fibers as well as traditional and novel applications of wool in areas including polymer composites and technical textiles. Apart from textiles and garments, wool has long been used for various diversified applications due to its unique material properties. Wool is inherently fire resistant, antimicrobial, flexible and antibacterial, and as a natural material, it can be used to create environmentally sustainable products. This book explains basic and advanced topics related to wool fibers, from shearing to marketing, drawing on academic and industrial research from a range of subjects.Providing statistics, processing methods, and testing and characterization techniques for wool fiber, this book will help readers to use wool fibers to find new applications and solutions.- Provides advanced testing methods to explore the material characteristics of wool- Includes the latest industrial methods for physical and chemical processing of wool- Presents case studies on how wool fibers have been made into successful bio-based composite and textile products
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to wool technology : A brief introduction to wool and its processing technology2. Wool production and statistics, Current market scenario :Recent statistics in wool production, export and imports, Current market potential of wool and woollen products3. Wool fibre identification4. Pre-processing of wool : Brief about shearing, cleaning, grading, scouring5. Mechanical processing of wool6. Wool Dyeing7. Functional Finishes of Wool8. Wool fibre morphology and chemical structure :The morphological characters of different breeds of wool, description on cuticle, cortex and medulla, their function9. Quality evaluation of wool: Methods of evaluation of quality of wool, parameters, important standards10. Chemical and Physical Properties of Wool11. Physical and chemical modification of wool12. Morphology studies using microscopic techniques : Advanced microscopic studies on wool13. Spectroscopic studies on wool fibers14. Thermal properties of wool: Thermal degradation studies, fire retardant properties15. Sustainable Moth Repellent Finishing for Wool16. Microbial attack and prevention methods :Microbial attack on wool fibre, causes, and remedies17. Anti shrink finishing of woollens :Shrink resist treatment on woollens using various physical and chemical methods18. Biodegradability and life cycle analysis of wool: Analysis of biodegradation of wool, wool fertilizers, life cycle studies19. Applications of wool fibre for technical textiles : Recent product developments on woollens for technical textiles20. Wool in composites : Wool fibre as a component in bio-composites21. Sound insulation properties of wool fiber22. Keratin extraction and its application: Extraction of wool keratin and application in diversified fields23. Blending of wool with other fibres :Mixing of wool with other natural/synthetic fibres for different applications24. Recycling of wool: Making wool more sustainable25. By-products during processing of fibre and their use: Generation of by-products during wool processing and their utilization26. Future prospective in woollens :Future prospective of wool and woollen products
