Textile Fiber Technology
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The official GTU curriculum for Textile Fiber Technology (subject code DI01029011) as prescribed for ICT · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 42 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (DI01029011)Unit 1 Introduction of Textile Fibre
- 1.1 Meaning of fibre
- Staple fibre
- Regenerated fibre
- Degree of polymerization
- Crystallinity and Orientation. 1.2 Classification of natural
- regenerated and man-made textile fibres. 1.3 Physical and chemical properties of natural and manmade fibres. 1.4 Cross-sectional and Longitudinal view of natural and manmade fibres. 1.5 Identification of textile fibre according to their burning characteristics
- chemical group and reaction
Unit 2 Natural Fibres
- Cultivation and harvesting
- Morphological structure
- Properties and applications of Cotton fibre. 2.2
- Retting and extraction process of bast fibres
- properties and applications of bast fibres such as Jute. 2.3
- Manufacturing process
- properties and applications of Wool fibre. 2.4
- Types of silk
- Stages of manufacturing process
- degumming and reeling process
- properties and applications Silk fibre. 2.5
- Brief study of Cultivation
- harvesting and properties of organic fibres such as Leaf fibres (Banana and Sisal) and Fruit fibres (Coir)
- Program Name: Diploma in Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Textile Manufacturing Technology Course / Subject Code : DI01029011 Course / Subject Name : Textile Fiber Technology 2.6
- Introduction to mineral origin Basalt fibre
Unit 3 Man-made Fibres
- 3.1 Raw material
- Manufacturing process
- Properties and applications of Viscose Rayon fiber. 3.2 Criteria for fibre forming polymer. 3.3 Give classification of Polymer. 3.4 Definition of Addition and Condensation polymerization. 3.5 Raw material
- Properties and applications of Nylon 6 fibres 3.6 Raw material
- Properties and applications of Polyester fibre. 3.7 Raw material
- Properties and applications of Acrylic fibre. 3.8 Raw material
- Properties and applications of Polypropylene fibres
Unit 4 Manmade Fibre Formation Technology
- 4.1 Melt spinning process and parts of machine such as Single and Double extruder
- Manifold and Quenching system. 4.2 Importance of drawing process. 4.3 Spin draw processes: H4S process and FDY process. 4.4 Dry spinning process
- method of Dope (solution) preparation. 4.5 Wet spinning process
- method of Dope (solution) preparation
- Fibre formation and coagulation variables. 4.6 Dry jet wet spinning process. 4.7 Functions
- Desirable properties
- Chemical constitute
- Method of application (Metered finish system) and affecting factors of spin finish. 4.8 Tow to top conversion stretch breaking method
Unit 5 High Performance Fibres
- 5.1 Raw material
- properties and application of Nomex
- Carbon and Micro fibre. 5.2 Raw material
- properties and application of Glass and Boron fibres. 5.3 Modified polyester fibres: (synthetic fibres) Limitations Of synthetic fibres
- Hollow and Silk like polyester fibre. 5.4 Introduction to Bi-component and Lycra fiber