Content:
The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of acrylic resins on the properties of the hide when added in the pickling-tanning stage of a wet white process.
Among retanning products, acrylic resins are very frequently used because they lend very good properties to the hide on account of their high affinity for chromium. When applied during chrome tanning, these
resins provide the hides with high fullness, due to the strong interaction of the carboxylate groups with chromium.
Extensive bibliography is available on the application of acrylic resins in wet blue, where it is observed that the properties they provide to the hides depend basically on the type of monomers and molecular weight. However, less information is found when these products are applied in wet white tanning.
In this study, 9 resins with different molecular weights and different monomer compositions were selected.
Resins were applied to pelt leathers of Spanish origin split at 3.5 mm. Hides were cut along the backbone. A standard process was applied to the left halves and the same process adding the resin was applied to the right halves. The resin was added after adjusting the salt of the bath and before adding the pickling acids.
The COD was measured before and after adding formic and sulfuric acid, and the shrinkage temperature and the degree of whiteness of the tanned hide were assessed. Hides were retanned and fatliquored with a standard process, and degree of softness, thickness, color intensity and organoleptic properties (fluffiness, compactness and grain tightness) were assessed. Leather shrinkage under temperature was also assessed, and images of leather sections were obtained by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
While acrylic resins did not increase shrinkage temperature, they did fix and/or deposit themselves in the interfibrillary spaces of the hide; indeed, highly reduced COD values after acidification in the pickling stage were observed. This study shows that homopolymeric acrylic resins provided fuller and fluffier hides, while the rest of resins practically did not improve the physical and organoleptic properties of the hides.
Take-Away:
Homopolymeric acrylic resins provided full er and fluffier hides, while the rest of resins practically did not improve the physical and organoleptic properties of the hides
Wet white tanning improvement
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:34177 |
| Date | 26 June 2019 |
| Creators | Ballus, Olga, Guix, M., Micó, R., Palop, R. |
| Contributors | International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies |
| Publisher | Verein für Gerberei-Chemie und -Technik e. V., Forschungsinstitut für Leder und Kunststoffbahnen (FILK) gGmbH |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-340872, qucosa:34087 |
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