Electron Beam Fixation of a Flame Retardant Applied Without Water by Coating Methods

Abstract

Low wet pickup and high solids finishing techniques can produce fabric with the resin distributed in a variety of ways. depending on the method used. Liquid Fyrol 76®, applied to cotton fabric by a number of different procedures, and polymerized at room temperature with electron beam, gave resin distribution that varied from quite nonuniform at low application pressures to complete uniformity at high pressures, even to the point of lumen and fiber penetration. Small amounts of water (as low as 7% above regain) before application effected a uniform distribution even at low pressure.