In times of rapidly increasing energy prices and growing eco-consciousness, textile finishing looks for modern, eco-friendly, energy and cost effective application and curing systems. To date, the textile industry still uses energy-consuming techniques for water and solvent removal and as well as for curing after (wet) chemical treatments.
LED-UV-curingsystems for textiles and composites
LED-Cure Objectives:
- development of UV-curable formulations for technical textile fonctionalisation and composite prepregs.
- the focus is on the use of UV-LED lamps as an energy efficient and eco-friendly alternative for mercury containing lamps
- an iron-doped UV-Hg lamp will be used as a reference
LED-CURE-targets:
- functional textiles based on polyester, polyamide, flame-resistant viscose, modacryl or blends with added functionalities such as flame resitance, hydrophobicity, oil resistance, breathing, resistance to rubbing and colour fastness
- flat composites through UV-curing prepregs as an alternative to the conventional thermal curing procedure
Project funding:
Vlaams Agentschap voor innoveren en ondernemen
CORNET
Vlaams Agentschap voor innoveren en ondernemen
CORNET