Progress of air flow field and fiber motion analysis in textile manufacturing process: a review

G Dong, D Zhang, J Yue, L Wu, L Han… - Textile Research …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The control of air flow fields generated in the textile manufacturing process is important to
fiber motion. With the expansion of textile applications and the challenges brought by carbon …

A review on the studies of air flow field and fiber formation process during melt blowing

X Hao, Y Zeng - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Melt blowing is an industrially important process in producing microfibrous nonwovens. Over
the past decades, there has been a considerable amount of fundamental research on this …

Turbulent air flow field in slot-die melt blowing for manufacturing microfibrous nonwoven materials

S Xie, W Han, G Jiang, C Chen - Journal of materials science, 2018 - Springer
Melt blowing is an industrial approach for producing microfibrous nonwoven materials
utilizing high-speed air to attenuate polymer melt. The melt-blowing air flow field which is …

Three-dimensional model of whipping motion in the processing of microfibers

Y Sun, Y Zeng, X Wang - Industrial & engineering chemistry …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Electrospinning and melt blowing are the most commonly used processes to produce
microfibers from extruded polymer solution or melt. The present work deals with the dynamic …

Advances in melt blowing process simulations

J Schmidt, S Shenvi Usgaonkar, S Kumar… - Industrial & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Melt blowing is a widely used process for manufacturing nonwoven fiber products with
applications spanning healthcare, agriculture, transportation, and infrastructure, among …

Optimization of air flow field of the melt blowing slot die via numerical simulation and genetic algorithm

Y Sun, X Wang - Journal of applied polymer science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The air flow field plays a key role in melt blowing. In this article, an optimal design procedure
that improves the airflow field of melt blowing is proposed. A parameter, stagnation …

Experimental investigation of the fiber formation process and web structures using an annular meltblowing spinneret

S Barilovits, SA Khan, E Shim - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This research experimentally investigates the fiber and web formation process of an array of
annular meltblown spinnerets. In this design, the molten polymer is extruded from an array of …

Lateral diffusion of a free air jet in slot-die melt blowing for microfiber whipping

S Xie, W Han, X Xu, G Jiang, B Shentu - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
In melt blowing, microfibrous nonwoven material is manufactured by using high-speed air to
attenuate polymer melt. The melt-blown air jet determines the process of polymer …

Investigation on a new annular melt-blowing die using numerical simulation

Y Wang, X Wang - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2013 - ACS Publications
In this study, a new annular melt-blowing die with an inner stabilizing piece was designed to
obtain finer fibers and consume less energy than for the common annular die. The effects of …

Air‐flow field of the melt‐blowing slot die via numerical simulation and multiobjective genetic algorithms

YF Sun, BW Liu, XH Wang… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The air‐flow field in melt blowing plays a key role in fiber drawing and nonwoven web
performance. A multiobjective optimization using genetic algorithms was proposed to obtain …