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Fibre behaviour in the spunbonding process. Part I: Characterisation of air flow and fibre motion in the diffuser


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Authors

Battocchio, F 
Sutcliffe, MPF 
Teschner, F 

Abstract

jats:p The random fibre oscillatory behaviour induced by turbulence in the diffuser of an industrial spunbonding rig is measured experimentally. The turbulent air flow is firstly characterised by constant temperature hot-wire anemometry: averaged flow quantities, such as the mean velocity and the turbulent kinetic energy, as well as time dependent quantities, such as the integral time and the energy spectrum, are measured. The influence of the turbulent flow on the dynamics of a nylon fibre of diameter 200 µm and a spunbonding fibre of diameter 18 µm in the diffuser is then investigated by extracting the transverse displacement from images acquired by a digital camera. </jats:p>

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This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE via https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406215616983

Keywords

Nonwovens, spunbonding, turbulence, hot-wire anemometry, fibre dynamics, image processing

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

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Journal ISSN

0954-4062
2041-2983

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SAGE Publications
Sponsorship
The authors are grateful to Fitesa Germany GmbH for the financial support.