Basics of Dyeing and Printing detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MSE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Materials Science & Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to MSE Open Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of basics of dyeing and printing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION Impurities present in different fibres, Inspection of grey goods and lot preparation. Shearing,
Unit II
PRE TREATMENT Desizing-Objective of Desizing- types of Desizing- Objective of Scouring- Mechanism of ScouringDegumming of Silk, Scouring of wool – Bio Scouring. Bleaching -Objective of Bleaching: Bleaching mechanism of Hydrogen Peroxide, Hypo chlorites. Objective of Mercerizing – Physical and Chemical changes of Mercerizing.
Unit III
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Unit IV
PRINTING Definition of printing – Difference between printing and dying- Classification thickeners -Requirements to be good thickener, printing paste Preparation – different styles of printing.
Unit V
MACHINERIES Fabric Processing – winch, jigger and soft flow machines. Beam dyeing machines: Printing -flat bed screen – Rotary screen. Thermo transfer printing machinery. Garment dyeing machines.
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to Understand the
- Basics of grey fabric
- Basics of pre treatment
- Concept of Dyeing
- Concept of Printing
- Machinery in processing industry
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Trotman E. R., “Dyeing and Chemical Technology of Textile Fibres”, Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd., U.K., 1984, ISBN : 0 85264 165 6.
- Dr. N N Mahapatra., “Textile dyeing”, Wood head publishing India, 2018
- Mathews Kolanjikombil., ”Dyeing of Textile substrates III -Fibres, Yarns and Knitted fabrics”, Wood head publishing India , 2021
- Bleaching & Mercerizing – BTRA Silver Jubilee Monograph series
- Chakraborty, J.N, “Fundamentals and Practices in colouration of Textiles”, Wood head Publishing India, 2009, ISBN-13:978-81-908001-4-3.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Materials Science & Engineering 7th Sem, visit MSE 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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