Investigation of Added Alkali and Electrolyte on Dyeing Nylon 6.6 by Mono-Chlortriazinyl Reactive Dye

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Department of Printing Science and Thechnology, Institute for Color Science and Technology

Abstract

One of the recurring problems observed with most of commercial anionic reactive dyes for dyeing nylon was the low degree of exhaustion and fixation. In this paper, a number of attempts were made to improve the fixation efficiency of an anionic reactive dye, Procion Rubine XL+, on modified nylon. This dye was selected for further study since, from the previous study, under non-optimised conditions fixation efficiency was particularly poor and therefore offered more scope for significant and readily observable improvements. The following process variables were studied;(a)effect of added alkali; dye was exhausted at pH 4 and then alkali added,(b) effect of added electrolyte, The addition of alkali and electrolyte during dyeing resulted in reduced dye fixation.

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