Synthetic Fibers – Machines and Equipment Manufacture, Properties.pdf
One hundred years of chemical fibers, and of these more than fifty years of synthetic fibers, do demand an inventory of the required technologies. While there is literature for the chemistry of the chemical and synthetic fibers, as well as for the processes and the textile testing technology, it is hardly possible to find comprehensive descriptions from installation, equipment and machinery manufacture through production of synthetic fibers and filaments and the manipulation of their properties.
The first book “Synthetic Fibers” was published in 1954 with about 160 pages and a world production of about 200,000 t/year at that time. The revised second edition from 1964 with 950 pages covered the total area of production through processing. The annual production of synthetic fibers had increased to 1.7 million t/year by then. Today, approximately 20 million t/year are produced accounting for about 45% of the world fiber production. The technical progress connected to this also requires a new
edition which addresses only the first third of the topics covered in the 1964 book on 900 pages.
Further reasons for the new edition are: At the European universities only Chemnitz and Zurich maintain a department for the design of machines and equipment for the production of synthetic fibers. Textiles taught within the framework of mechanical engineering departments of other universities focuses primarily on textile engineering, while the training of the engineers is left to the specific industries. Thus this becomes an issue for about 1200 fiber production companies and over 1000 machinery makers, without having a comprehensive overview available. Many of the design elements are also unknown in the general mechanical engineering. Drive problems, auxiliaries preparation and conditions for auxiliary plants, as well as mathematical-physical and process technological items are explained in many examples.
The corresponding electro and micro-processing technology, automation and computer-integrated manufacturing are not covered in this book, as this would exceed the given frame. This book is separated into a part on material specific processes, the corresponding installations, machines, and process data. In a further part the designs and calculations are introduced, also for different materials and varying function parameters.
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