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Iron Rust Stain Removal and precautions to be taken against the presence of Iron.
In Textile processing we come across many types of stains. Iron Rust Stain is one amongst those stains. The textile fabric or yarn is coming into contact with rusted iron parts of the machinery and get stained. Sometimes the processing water itself contain floating rust particles coming out of rusted water pipelines that also cause rust deposition over the fabric. These iron rust particles during processing react with other chemicals forming unwanted results that sometimes destroy the cotton cellulose or the dyes and auxiliary chemicals. For example, if hydrogen peroxide bleaching is carried out in the presence of iron particles over the fabric, it gets destroyed by the catalytic oxidation of cellulose molecule into oxy-cellulose. This oxy-cellulose will dissolve into water and there will be a formation of hole up to the size of rust deposition. In the case of dyeing some of the metal complex dyestuffs like reactive turquoise blues and Blue R will go dull in tone and even the fastness properties are also get affected. In order to remove the iron rust from the stained fabric we may adopt the following procedure. The fabric is treated with about 2 to 4 grams per litre of oxalic acid and 1 to 2 grams per litre of 70% sulphuric acid at around 60 to 80'C for about 30 to 60 minutes according to the severity of the stain. After this process the fabric should be thoroughly neutralized with 2 to 4 gpl of soda ash at cold, followed by 1 or 2 cold washes and if necessary soaping. .
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