Blow Room
Blow Room
There are same methods of opening the mass of fibres into small tufts before further processing.
This process of opening & clean is knows as blow room process. Blow room consists of a number of
m/c used in succession to open & clean the cotton fibre to the required degree 40% to 70% trash is
removed in this section.
Objects of blow room process:
To open the compressed layer of bale of cotton or any staple fibres with minimum damage
to the fibres.
To remove the impurities like sand, seed, bits, neps & short fibres present in the cotton with
minimum loss of lint by opening & blending.
To effect a through blending with minimum neps formation.
To convert the mass of cotton fibres into a uniform thick sheet of cotton both longitudinally
& transversely & fed as it in the case of chute feed system or wound in the form of a
compactly built lap with minimum lap rejection.
Intensive de-dusting of cotton fibres to extract micro- dust in order to improve the working
of opened spinning m/c.
Fibre recovery from the waste produced by the various processes during the conversion of
fibre to yarn in order to reduce the consumption of raw material.
Process parameter in the blow room:
Following are the basic parameters to be considered in Blowroom process-
Number of opening machines
Type of beater
Type of beating
Beater speed
Setting between feed roller and beater
Production rate of individual machine
Production rate of the entire line
Thickness of the feed web
Density of the feed web
Fibre micronaire
Size of the flocks in the feed
Type of clothing of the beater
Point density of clothing
Type of grid and grid settings
Air flow through the grid
Position of the machine in the sequence
Amount of trash in the material
Type of trash in the material
Temp and relative humidity in the blow room department