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Title: NIR Analysis for Textiles

Author
item Rodgers Iii, James
item GHOSH, SUBHAS - Eastern Michigan University

Submitted to: Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/12/2005
Publication Date: 10/15/2007
Citation: Rodgers III, J.E., Ghosh, S. 2007. NIR Analysis for Textiles. Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis. pp 485-520. In: Burns, D. and Ciurczak, E. (eds.) Handbook of Near Infrared Analysis, 3rd Ed., CRC Press, New York. 808 pp. 2008.

Interpretive Summary: Near Infrared (NIR) methods and techniques continue to find increasingly diverse and wide-ranging quantitative and qualitative applications in the textile industry. NIR methods allow the user to rapidly, accurately, and precisely monitor key chemical, physical, and morphological properties of textile fibers, yarns, fabrics, and chemical textile auxiliaries (finishes, lubricants, etc.). This chapter will be presented in two sections—one for natural fibers (cotton, wool, blends, etc.) and one for synthetic fibers (nylon, polyester, blends, etc.). Each section will review many of the more common laboratory and at-line/on-line NIR analyses, methods and techniques for textile products.

Technical Abstract: Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been found to be a useful technique to characterize raw materials and finished textile products, and NIR methods and techniques continue to find increasingly diverse and wide-ranging quantitative and qualitative applications in the textile industry. NIR methods allow the user to rapidly, accurately, and precisely monitor key chemical, physical, and morphological properties of textile fibers, yarns, fabrics, and chemical textile auxiliaries. This chapter will be presented in two sections—one for natural fibers (cotton, wool, blends, etc.) and one for synthetic fibers (nylon, polyester, blends, etc.). Each section will review many of the more common NIR analyses, methods and techniques for textile products, such as degree of mercerization and maturity for cotton and heatset temperature and fiber/polymer type identification for synthetic fibers. Both laboratory and at-line/on-line NIR analyses will be reviewed.