Preface:

Today's world is experiencing acuteshortage of energy and each country and company is trying its best to conservethis limited source of energy. After cotton harvesting, Textile finishingindustry has earned reputation of highest energy eating field.

According to different studies tomanufacture a single cotton shirt approximately 2,800-3,000 litres of water is usedand wet finishing processes consume the highest amount of water in allfinishing processes. Considering this global water shortage problem many countries has tighten their norms and regulations for textile finishing processes as in order to reduce waste water problem.

To solve this problem companies are opting for technologieswhich are more environment friendly and more energy saving in nature. Machinerymanufactures are focusing their investment on R&D to develop technologies whichare energy efficient and more sophisticated.

Following description provide brief idea about latestofferings by some notable processing machinery manufactures which will helpreduce energy wastage problem and make a step forward in way to makeenvironment clean and green.

Latest Offerings:

Leading manufactures are tightening their belts with the aimof offering best solution to the industry and are investing highly on R&Dto develop energy saving technologies. Following are some latest products offered by some leading finishing machine manufactures.

Benninger AG

Benninger is a leading provider of finishing machinery and awell reputed in terms of developing innovative machineries. Under the term "Resourcemanagement" company attempts to make solutions for finishing industrymore energy efficient.

Benninger has developed system which can efficiently recoverwater, valuable materials and waste energy in the process through a speciallydeveloped diaphragm filtration systems with

This diaphragm system is a multi stage system where thefirst stage is comprises an ultrafiltration stage followed by downstreamreverse osmosis stage. The ultrafiltration stage is equipped with a specialceramic diaphragm frame which is designed to restrain long-chain organiccomponents of the used waste water coming out of processing process. In the next stage i.e. reverse osmosis, dissolved dyestuffs and salts are almost completelyseparated from the processed water.

Processed water after passing through these two purificationstage becomes ready to be reusable in textile finishing process without anyadverse effect to quality of the end product. This system helps recover more than80 % of the treated waste water.

Brückner

Brueckner has long tradition of investment in development inenergy efficient equipments. The company supplies its products with Eco-Heat, aheat recovery system, which is a unique energy saving concept by brueckner.

This system recovers heat from exhausted air and reuses thisair to heat up fresh air entering into the stenter. In the same manner thissystem also enables reuse of exhausted air to heat up service water which isused in wet finishing. Brueckner's Eco-heat system are said to be mostefficient system which has short payback time.

Another solution offered by Brueckner is Air purification system, ECO-AIR, which enables removal of toxic gases from the process and treats the air more clean using self-cleaning scrubber zones

Brueckner offers ECO-AIR electro static filter system which offers air filtration in two stages through ionization and collection zone. This system filters air with 99% of efficiency.

Monforts:

Germany based A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH also tries to develop solutions which are energy saving and are optimized in a way that maximum payback period is guaranteed. To bring down fuel cost, today monforts offers heat recovery system with its entire range of products. Latest heat exchangers are mounted on the top of the stenters so that exhaust heat is reutilized to heat up fresh air entering stenter and heat loss can be maintained at minimum possible level. Fresh air preheated in this way can bring energy saving benefit of upto 10 to 3o percentages.

Monforts has also launched a stand alone Energy Tower that can be retrofitted to existing stenter. This towers are contains five heat recovery sections and can save upto 30% of energy cost.

Summary:

Concerns over depleting energy sources are rising continuously in world's textile industry and wet finishing being the second largest contributor in consumption of resources like water, steam etc is being focused by many leading organization for optimization in processes through innovation technologies. Manufactures have worked hard to develop energy efficient technology in order to bring green world environment, yet they have miles to go before they develop optimum solution to this problem.