Rice wine lees glutelin utilization as a source of bio-based sizing agents through graft polymerization
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Abstract
Rice wine lees (RWL) are available in large quantities at low price and nearly 20% of them are glutelin. However, poor water solubility of native RWL glutelin under neutral condition severely inhibits its use as a sizing agent in the textile industry. In order to solve the difficult problem, various amounts of hydrophilic vinyl monomers–acrylic acid (AA) were grafted onto molecular chains of native RWL glutelin in the study. Then, effects of graft modification on application properties of RWL glutelin were studied in terms of water solubility, apparent viscosity, wettability, mechanical properties of sizing films, adhesion to common textile fibers, mechanical properties of sized warp yarns and biodegradability. It was found that, the RWL glutelin- g -PAA with a grafting ratio of 74.1%, exhibited better comprehensive properties. The RWL glutelin- g -PAA thus produced possessed performance parameters of 32 min in solubility period, 10.12 N/mm 2 , 6.37% and 0.61 mg/cm 2 in tensile strength, elongation and wear loss of sizing film, 125.3 N/1000 tex and 106.5 N/1000 tex in adhesion strength to cotton and polyester fibers, 3.49 N, 6.55% and 111 cycles in tensile strength, elongation and abrasion resistance of sized polyester/cotton blended warp yarn and 0.311 in the ratio of BOD 5 /COD cr , respectively. The graft polymerization has enabled RWL glutelin to serve for commonly used yarns as a new biodegradable and bio-based sizing agent.
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OpenAlex topics: Textile materials and evaluations · Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites · Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
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Affiliations
Shaoxing University, Zhejiang, China
China Shaoxing Yellow Rice Wine Group Co. Ltd, Zhejiang, China
Funding
First-Class Course Construction Project of Zhejiang Province · Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province
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