Workwear fabric suitability to molten metal industry

Year 2020, Volume: 30 Issue: 4, 289 - 295, 29.12.2020

Bengi Kutlu , Tuğçem Bitgen

https://doi.org/10.32710/tekstilvekonfeksiyon.738092

Abstract

In the scope of the foundry processes, there are vital risks when melting of metals at high temperatures, carrying this molten metal to molds and pouring it to molds. In this study, wide range of workwear materials which are used in foundries in Turkey were collected and their protection properties were investigated to observe their performances. Determining suitable material to molten metal processing was aimed. These workwear materials were produced from FR-cotton, cotton denim, modacrylic-viscose-FR cotton, meta-aramid, aluminized aramid, FR viscose-wool-polyamide and leather. Their performances were very different. Except from meta-aramid and both of the FR cotton fabrics, other fabrics failed flame spread. Contrary to flame spread, leather, aluminized aramid, FR viscose-wool-polyamide and cotton denim materials showed the highest values in molten metal protection test. Besides, leather had no air permeability but has some water vapor permeability and aluminized aramid has poor air and water permeabilities.

Keywords

Molten metal, workwear, protective clothing, molten aluminium, foundry

Supporting Institution

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi BAP Birimi

Project Number

2013.KB.FEN.032

Thanks

This work was supported by Dokuz Eylul University under Grant number 2013.KB.FEN.032. The authors wish to thank to Ege University Leather Engineering Department for leather experiments and to Dokuz Eylul University Metallurgical and Materials Engineering for melting processes of aluminium. This study was presented in 7th European Conference on Protective Clothing.

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