The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Property and Application

The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Property and Application explores fundamental aspects of wool fibres 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 it is a natural material it can be used to create environmentally sustainable products. This book explains both the basics and advanced topics related to wool fibres, from shearing to marketing, drawing on academic and industrial research from a range of subjects. Providing statistics, processing methods, and testing and characterisation techniques for wool fibre, this book will help readers to use wool fibres 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 Case studies explain how wool fibres have been made into successful bio-based composite and textile products INDICE: 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. Identification of wool fibres4. Morphology and chemical structure of a wool fiber5. Morphology studies using microscopic techniques: Advanced microscopic studies in wool6. Quality evaluation of wool: Methods of evaluation of quality of wool, parameters, important standards7. Chemical and Physical Properties of Wool8. Spectroscopic studies on wool fibers9. Water relationship of wool fibre: Moisture properties of wool10. Sound insulation properties of wool fiber11. Thermal properties of wool: Thermal degradation studies, fire retardant properties12. Pre-processing of wool Fibres13. Improvement of wool properties through physical and chemical modifications14. Mechanical finishing of wool for improved property and functionality15. Wool Dyeing16. Functional Finishing of Wool17. The use of wool fiber in technical textiles and recent developments18. Wool in composites: Wool fibre as a component in bio-composites 19. Anti-shrink finishing of woolens: Shrink resist treatment on woolens using various physical and chemical methods20. Microbial attack and prevention methods: Microbial attack on wool fiber, causes, and remedies21. Sustainable Moth Repellent Finishing for Wool22. Blending of wool with other fibres: Mixing of wool with other natural/synthetic fibres for different applications 23. Keratin extraction and its application: Extraction of wool keratin and application in diversified fields24. 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 of wool and woollen products

• ISBN: 978-0-323-99598-6
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 450
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés