Abstract

Conventional padding is a non-sustainable textile processing technique, which consumes excessive water, chemicals and energy. To support the survival of the textile processing industry, researchers have identified the foam technology for application of dyes and finishes. Foam technology is more ecofriendly than the conventional padding. However, the successful foam generation for different finishes is a challenging task. In addition, it is more difficult and complicated task to effectively apply the foam on the fabrics and get the results which should be comparable with the conventional padding. This paper compares the pad-finishing with foam-finishing on the basis of sustainability, cost, productivity, and performance using 11 different non-toxic and sustainable finishes including cross-linkers, oil and water repellents, softeners, and fire retardant on the cotton fabric samples. Cost, productivity, performance and sustainability were estimated through the specific methods. The paper organizes the problem as analytic hierarchy process model and solves the model using super decisions software. The results reveal that the foam-finishing technique is more preferable in terms of cost, productivity and sustainability, if optimized properly. In addition, the successful foam-finishing recipes have been generated and the performance of foam-finishing has been comparable with pad-finishing. For instance, if all the criteria were given the same priority, the foam-finishing recipe with less quantity of chemical was 84.61% better than the pad-finishing. The optimized foam-finishing recipe was 84.55% better than the pad-finishing. In addition, the optimized foam-finishing recipe indicated better finishing performance in term of some important tests as compared to padding.

中文翻译：

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可持续，经济高效的纺织品泡沫整理的发展及其与传统填料的比较

摘要

传统的填充是一种不可持续的纺织品加工技术，会消耗过多的水，化学药品和能源。为了支持纺织加工业的生存，研究人员确定了用于染料和涂饰剂的泡沫技术。泡沫技术比传统的填料更加环保。然而，成功地产生不同饰面的泡沫是一项艰巨的任务。此外，将泡沫有效地施加到织物上并获得与常规填料可比的结果是更加困难和复杂的任务。本文基于可持续性，成本，生产率和性能，使用11种不同的无毒且可持续的面漆（包括交联剂，拒油拒水剂，柔软剂，对棉织物样品具有阻燃性。成本，生产率，性能和可持续性通过特定方法进行估算。本文将问题组织为层次分析过程模型，并使用超级决策软件对其进行求解。结果表明，如果适当优化，就成本，生产率和可持续性而言，泡沫后处理技术更可取。另外，已经产生了成功的泡沫整理方案，并且泡沫整理的性能可与垫整理相媲美。例如，如果所有标准都具有相同的优先级，则化学成分较少的泡沫整理配方比填充整理效果要好84.61％。优化的泡沫后处理配方比垫式后处理好84.55％。此外，