Journal
TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL
Volume 92, Issue 15-16, Pages 2909-2921Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/00405175211036733
Keywords
Carding; metallic card clothing; double teeth; high efficiency; computational fluid dynamics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51275414]
- Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing (NWPU), China
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The design of metallic card clothing in the textile industry has traditionally been based on operational experience, but recent research suggests that airflow plays an important role in the carding process. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation has shown to be helpful in analyzing airflow, with a new double teeth design showing potential for improving production efficiency.
The design of metallic card clothing, which is one of the most important devices in the textile industry, has always been based on operational experience. With the development of types of fibers and the requirements for the quality of yarns, those principles concluded by engineers seem to be losing their efficiency. Recent research found that airflow played an important role in the card process, which means airflow should be carefully studied. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation greatly helps in the analysis of airflow because the gauge between carding elements is too narrow to put in any measuring device. In the present study, with the help of CFD simulation, the air around different carding clothing with varied tooth depth was analyzed. It was concluded that the carding efficiency improvement in card clothing with lower tooth depth may be related to more concentrated air velocity at the tooth tips. This resulted in more probabilities that fibers would get through the cylinder surface at the teeth tips, so that the fibers could be caught by flat-top needles more efficiently. With this assumption, a new generation of card clothing called double teeth containing two teeth in a single section has been invented. The new configuration design of card clothing was then applied in several spinning mills on an industrial scale for experiments. The results showed about a 30% improvement in production at the same quality level as conventional card clothing, which implied the usefulness of the newly applied principles related to airflow. Despite the difficulty in the study of the complex carding process, the new airflow analysis method has shown an optional and worthwhile way of thinking that could make a difference in future research in the textile industry.
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