TITLE:
Minimization of Air Consumption and Potential Savings of Textile Denim Fabric Manufacturing Process
AUTHORS:
Md. Enamul Haque, Md. Bokthier Rahman, Waliul Kafi, Md. Suja Uddin Kaiser, Abhijit Dey
KEYWORDS:
Denim, Woven Textiles, Weaving Machine, Air Consumption, Cost Reduction, Waste Reduction, Potential Savings
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Textile Science and Technology,
Vol.9 No.1,
February
27,
2023
ABSTRACT: One of
the most important aspects of Bangladesh’s
textile industry is denim. Bangladesh now has a new opportunity thanks to the
global demand for denim among fashion industry professionals. Entrepreneurs
from Bangladesh provide denim products to well-known
international merchants all over the world. The worldwide denim market is
predicted to expand by roughly 8% through the year 2020. We must raise the
standard of denim if we are to keep up with the expanding industry. In contrast
to projectile and rapier systems, air-jet weaving machines nowadays can weave
practically all types of yarns without any issues and at higher rates. Due to
this, air-jet looms are an excellent substitute for other weft insertion
techniques. This kind of device still has one significant flaw, though, and
that is the enormous power consumption brought on by the creation of compressed
air. Researchers and manufacturers of air-jet looms have therefore worked very
hard to find a solution to this issue and achieve a huge reduction in air
consumption without compromising loom performance or fabric quality. Therefore,
the purpose of this project is to look into ways to decrease air consumption
and reduce auxiliary selvedge waste without any decrease in loom performance
and fabric quality on existing air-jet weaving looms which reduce the
manufacturing costs with process improvement. Just updating the air pressure
allowed a weaving mill to reduce air usage by 11 cfm. So, with just almost no
cost, a company with 100 looms could save $0.15 M each year, on compressed air.
Two new methods for decreasing process costs on air jet looms have also been developed
by this project work.