Recent progress in the chemical processes of the textile industry

✍ Scribed by Frederic Dannerth

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1909
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 334 KB
• Volume: 167
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(09)90178-8

✦ Synopsis

WHILE it is quite true that the twentieth century has brought with it a host of inventions as well as actual improvements in the way of ch~nical preparations, unique processes, and laborsaving machinery, we must agree that by far the most important part of the program has been the amplification and development of ideas which were conceived in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This is, however, nothing unusual, for it has been observed that valuable inventions frequently lie unnoticed for a long time, awaiting, as it were, the magic touch of a keen-witted investor.

The subject which forms the title of the lecture for this evening may be conveniently divided in four parts, viz. : (I) newer preparations; (2) modern processes; (3) improved machinery; (4) the application of chemical engineering to textile problems.

NEWER PREPARATIONS

The preparations of known composition which have been placed at the disposal of our industry during the last ten years include fifteen materials, some of which were known in the laboratory many years previous but were inaccessible for technical processes because of their high price. The following groups may be distinguished:

Turkey-red Oil Group.--This includes the preparations known in trade as Monopol soap. ( original ) --a highly sulphonated castor1. oil; Monopol brilliant oil--prepared from Monopol soap witl~ addition of certain fats; Monopol oil (Schmitz), prepared from castor oil by sulphonation. The first-named material is not 5 °`