Causes of foam in textile printing and dyeing process
1. The usage of surfactants
2. Mechanical stirring and airflow impact
3. High temperature conditions
4. Chemical reactions
The advantages of silicone antifoams
1. Silicone antifoams is featured with lowsurface tension, low solubility, good dispersion, and durable effect, which canquickly destroy the stability of foam and make bubbles break and dissipaterapidly.
2. It is especially suitable for foamcontrol in the environment with high temperature, strong alkali, high shearingforce and other requirements during textile printing and dyeing process.
3. Silicon antifoams also have advantagessuch as inactive chemical properties, non-toxicity, and no pollution to theenvironment.
Requirements for antifoams in textileprinting and dyeing processes
Pre-processing
Process: Desizing, high-temperatureboiling, bleaching, washing, preparation before dyeing
Demand: reduce uneven contact betweenauxiliaries and fabrics due to foam, and improve fabric treatment quality
Requirements for antifoams: hightemperature resistance, even dispersion, and good permeability
Post-processing
Process: Fixed color, softing, waterprooftreatment
Demand: To make the additivespenetrate, distribute, or coat the fabric more evenly
Requirements for antifoams: hightemperature resistance, acid and alkali resistance, and good stability
Beating
Demand: to reduce the foam produced duringthe mixing and shearing process of the size, help the fabric be evenly sized,dyed and maintain the stability of the treatment effect
Requirements for defoamers: hightemperature resistance, acid and alkali resistance
Medium and high temperature printing anddyeing
Process: High temperature and high-pressurejet dyeing
Demand: to reduce the influence of foamgenerated under high temperature, mechanical vibration and shearing on unevendyeing of fabrics
Requirements for antifoams: hightemperature resistance
Antifoams designed specifically fortextile printing and dyeing
Meson Textile Printing and Dyeing antifoams takes high temperature resistance andacid and alkali resistance as its leading advantages (click to view the testing comparison) , and meet multiple needs (click to view the selection table) such as the balance between effects and cost.