Naslov
Bio-innovative flax retting

Autori
Brunšek, Ružica ; Tarbuk, Anita ; Butorac, Jasminka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Proceedings of 8th Central European Conference on Fiber-Grade Polymers, Chemical Fibers and Special Textiles / Dekanić, Tihana ; Tarbuk, Anita - Zagreb : Tekstilno-tehnološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2015, 2-7

ISBN
978-953-7105-63-1

Skup
8th Central European Conference on Fiber-Grade Polymers, Chemical Fibers and Special Textiles

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 16.09.2015. - 18.09.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Flax fibres; enzymatic retting; fineness; tenacity

Sažetak
Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an important commercial crop that supplies both linseed and bast fibres for multiple applications. Retting, which is a microbial process, separates industrially useful bast fibres from non-fibre stem tissues. While several methods (i.e., water- and dew-retting) are used to ret flax, more recently enzymes have been evaluated to replace currently used methods. The enzymes remove the noncellulosic compounds from the technical fibres, and at the same time are biodegradable and non-toxic, with no dependence on the weather conditions. Therefore, in this paper an enzymatic retting was researched, and its influence to the flax quality. Comparing the properties of enzyme-retted flax fibres the properties of water-retted ones, it can be found that enzymatic retted fibres are coarser, but much stronger. The results have shown that the strongest fibre was achieved with bath having enzyme concentration 0.2 % with similar fineness compared with other bath concentration. Therefore, this concentration can be considered as optimal one. The use of enzymes to extract fibres provides an environmentally friendly method toward developing reliable and sustainable agriculture using bio- based fibres of enhance quality.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Tekstilna tehnologija, Poljoprivreda (agronomija)

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