Jin Mao Chen

PET/PP Blend with Bamboo Charcoal to Produce Functional Composites: Evaluation of Functionalities

Poly(ethylene terephthalate)/polypropylene/bamboo charcoal (PET/PP/BC) thermoplastic composites were prepared by melt compounding and then injection molding. The functionalities of the composites, such as electrical resistivity, electromagnetic shielding effectiveness (EMSE), far-infrared ray radiativity (FIRR) and negative ion concentration, were evaluated in the study. The surface resistivity and volume resistivity of the functional composites were 2.47 - 9.12×1011 Ω/sq and 5.8 - 7.01×1010 Ωcm, respectively, while composites containing 6 wt% BC or above. The EMSE of the composites were below 10 dB at frequency ranged from 300 kHz to3 GHz. The average FIRR of the composites was 0.85 at BC concentration of 8 wt%. Incorporation of BC into the composites increased the negative ion concentration of about 30 pcs/cc compared to those without BC. However, it is lower than the positive ion concentration in the air.

Manufacturing Technique of Stab-Resistant Laminated Composite Nonwoven Fabrics

In this study, the nonwoven composites were made of high strength nylon 6 staples and low-melting-point polyester staples using needle-punching and thermal-bonding. By tensile strength test and constant-rate stab resistance test, the optimum parameters of the composites were obtained for developing and designing the stab-resistant nonwoven composites. The optimum experimental conditions for the nonwoven composites were as follows: the temperature for thermal-bonding was 150 °C; and the wheel speed of thermal compression was 0.5 m/min.

Manufacturing and Stab-Resisting Properties of Compound Fabric Reinforced Using Recycled Nonwoven Selvages

Nowadays, the development of science and technology are rapidly, relatively, wastes brought more and more problems. Because the waste produced by the textile production accounts for 5% of total rubbish quantity, so how to reduce the pollution of the selvage wastes and how to effective treatment waste is the present primary task in the course of developing. This research is mainly to use two layers of the 7.0d polyester (PET) nonwoven as the base cloth of the upper strata and lower strata, and the selvage wastes of the PP are layered between them. The polyester nonwoven and selvage wastes combine by needle punching and thermal bonding than the nonwoven/ selvage wastes compound fabrics are formed. By this production, we can reduce waste quantity of selvage to achieve the environmental protection purpose, and increase the strength of the compound fabric. The results show when the weight of base cloth is 150 g/m2, the content of selvage waste in the compound fabric is 10%, temperature of thermal bonding is 220 °C, the liner velocity of the thermal compress roll is 0.5 m/min and the density of needle punching is 400 needles/cm2, the compound fabric has best mechanical properties. The stab resistance and the application of the compound fabric in geotextile are evaluated by test according to ASTM D4632 and ASTM D4533 standard.

Process Technique and Property Evaluation of Bamboo Charcoal/Polyamide/Stainless Steel Elastic Warp-Knitted Fabrics

As improvement of science and technology, the life quality was significantly promoted. And people are more aware of health care. It has been proved that bamboo charcoal owns special properties including air purification, water refining, deodorization, far-infrared radiation, and anion release, thus it is widely applied on textile industry in form of fiber and yarn after mixing with its power. This study aims to seek for the optimal twist number of bamboo charcoal (BC)/Nylon(NY)/ stainless steel(SS) wrap yarn. And then the one or two wrap yarns were fed into crocheting machine to weave BC/NY/SS elastic warp-knitted fabrics with different structures. Afterwards, the far-infrared radiation, anion amount, air permeability were discussed by changes of number of layers. The result shows that, as increasing layers of BC/NY/SS elastic warp-knitted fabrics, the far-infrared radiation and air permeability both decrease; but all the single-layer warp knitted fabric reaches above 0.8, corresponding with the functional standards.

Manufacturing Technique and Property Evaluation of Impact-Resistant Polypropylene/Glass Fiber Composites

Using the injection molding method, impact-resistant polypropylene (PP) and glass fibers (GF) with weight ratios of 5 wt%, 10 wt%, 15 wt%, 20 wt%, 25 wt% and 30 wt% were blended twice, completing high-impact PP/ GF composites. Next, the tensile strength test, flexural stress test and IZOD impact strength test measured the composites. According to the results, with an increase in glass fibers, the composites exhibited a greater tensile strength, which further reached to climax when the GF weight ratio was 25 wt%. However, tensile strength appeared inversely proportionate to the blending frequency. In addition, regardless of blending frequencies, the optimum flexural stress occurred when the GF weight ratio was 25 wt%; nevertheless, it started declining when the ratio was 30 wt%. Finally, indicated by IZOD impact test, the greater the GF weight ratio, the lower the impact strength the composites exited.

Impact-Resistant Polypropylene/Short Glass Fiber Composites with Far-Infrared Emission: Manufacturing Technique and Property Evaluation

This study produces the far-infrared emitting composites by using impact-resistant polypropylene, short glass fibers, and far-infrared masterbatches. The addition of short glass fiber and far-infrared masterbatches is then evaluated to determine their influence on the mechanical properties and far-infrared emissivity of the resulting composites. The experimental results show that with an increase in the content of short glass fibers, the tensile strength increases from 34 MPa to 56 MPa, the far-infrared emissivity increases from 0.85 to 0.93, but the impact strength decreases from 1037 J/m to 197 J/m, proving that the resulting composites have desired mechanical properties and far-infrared emission.

Primary Study of Polyester Composite Nonwoven Applied on Soilless Culture

Currently, all over countries call for greening the earth. Whereas, there is no enough space to be planted by developing countries, owing to their excessive and intensive development. For establishing green globe, every country expects to green forming urban forest in the way of soilless culture, attached with far-infrared fiber in order to promote root growing speed. This study uses polyester (PET) fiber and far-infrared PET (FIR) fiber to form PET/FIR composite nonwoven fabric by nonwoven processing technology. In this process, blending ratio of PET and FIR fibers was varied. Afterwards, moisture retention, air permeability and far-infrared emissivity of PET/FIR composite nonwoven fabric were all tested. The results show that, blending ratio of PET and FIR fibers has no significant influence on moisture retention and air permeability, but obviously impacts on far-infrared emissivity.

Preliminary Study of Polypropylene/Sawdust Green Composite

In this study, sawdust and polypropylene (PP) are melt-blended and injection-molded to form the wood-plastic composite (WPC).The WPC is then tested in terms of mechanical properties and compared with control groups of pure PP plate and PP/glass fiber (PP/GF) composite. In the tensile test, the WPC displays a tensile strength of 25-27 MPa, regardless of whether the sawdust content is 5, 10, or 15 wt%. Pure PP composite has a tensile strength of 30 MPa; PP/GF composite with 15 wt% glass fibers has a tensile strength of 57 MPa. In the bending test, the WPC displays a flexural strength of 44-45 MPa as the sawdust content does not influence the bending strength. PP/glass fiber composite yields a bending strength of 85 MPa when the content of glass fiber is 15 wt%. WPC is 5% lighter than PP/glass fiber composite.

The Primary Study on Polyester/ Polypropylene Sound-Absorption Nonwoven Fabric

As social civilization advances, more and more people reside in the city. Consequently, the number of automobiles and locomotives increases, causing greenhouse effect and noise pollution increasingly serious. Therefore, lowering the temperature and reducing the noise in living conditions has become an urgent task, in order to save resources usage amount and to produce a low-noise dwelling environment. In this study, the sound-absorption and heat-insulation nonwoven fabrics were firstly prepared by three-dimensional crimp hollow polyester fiber (PET) fibers and Polypropylene (PP) fibers based on nonwoven processing technology, following by sound-absorption coefficient test, thermal conductivity test, as well as maximum tensile strength and maximum tearing strength tests. The results show that, 70/30 wt% PET/ PP nonwoven fabrics have the maximum tensile strength of 2.47 MPa (CD) and 1.67 MPa (MD), in addition with the maximum tearing strength of 83.96 kN/m (CD), 111.88 kN/m (MD); the 90/10 wt% PET/ PP nonwoven presents the lowest thermal conductivity coefficient of 0.0365 W/K‧m; nonwoven with three different ratios show the similar sound-absorbing curves, which all reaches the highest absorption coefficient of 0.76 at 4000 Hz.

Property Evaluation of Polypropylene/Glass Fiber Complex Braids under a Base/Salt Environment

The earth can be strengthened by embeding geogrids within. Glass fibers, used in geogrids, are heat-resistant and have stable size and chemistry; however, they tend to break from the clefts on the surface. This project created complex braids for geogrids by wrapping glass fibers (GF) with polypropylene (PP) filaments, preventing the geogrids’ outer friction and combining two materials as a bind. An 8-spindle braid machine and a 16-spindle braid machine were employed for braiding process. The experimental group was divided into two subjects, one was PP/ GF complex braids heat-set and the other non-heat-set. Then PP/ GF complex braids were measured with tensile strength after being immersed in sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solutions and sodium chloride (NaCl) solutions.