Ultravilolet-radiation-induced graft polymerization of acrylamide onto the melt-blown polypropylene filter element by dynamic method

By dynamic method under UV irradiation, commercial melt-blown polypropylene （PPMB） filter element was modified with acrylamide （AAm） using benzophenone （BP） as initiator. Attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope verified that polyacrylamide chain was grafted on the fiber surface of PPMB filter element. Elemental content analysis with energy dispersive X-ray of fibers revealed that the polymerization content in the inner part of filter element was relatively higher than that in the outer. Degree of grafting changed with initiator concentration, monomer concentration, reaction temperature and reached 2.6% at the reaction condition： CBp=0.06 mol/L, CAAm=2.0 mol/L, irradiation time： 80 min, temperature： 60℃. Relative water flux altered with the hydrophilicity and pore size of filter element. In the antifouling test, the modified filter gave greater flux recovery （approximately 70%） after filtration of the water extract of Liuweidihuang, suggesting that the fouling layer was more easily reversible due to the hydrophilic nature of the modified filter.

Comparative Study of Polypropylene Non-Woven Surgical Mask and Locally Manufactured Woven and Knitted Fabrics Facial Masks

The outbreak of coronavirus has led to an increase in the demand for facemasks globally. Unavailability of appropriate polypropylene non-woven fabrics face masks as a result of inadequate supply to satisfy the growing population has brought about the manufacturing of locally fabrics masks to augment or substitute standard medical class facemasks. The study aims at analyzing airflow of these locally manufactured fabrics to determine possible means of transmitting the virus as well as establish comfort of the user of these masks. Standard polypropylene non-woven, woven and knitted fabrics were considered for the study. Air permeability test was conducted on these fabrics using Frazier Air permeability tester. Depending on the property significant variation in the textile fabrics, polypropylene non-woven is widely accepted for facial masks. Nevertheless, this study illustrates that woven and knitted fabrics have more open structures, which allow a high rate of air penetration and so may require two or three layers to prevent antimicrobial or antiviral potential.

Use of Polypropylene Non-woven as Sorbent of Oil Small

In this work, the mechanical tensile and elongation properties and the non-woven polypropylene flammability were evaluated, with variations of gratings, compared to non-woven fabrics prepared with thermo film and TNT （fabric non-fabric）, for applications such as geotextile sorption of oil spills. The results showed high values of tensile strength for non-woven fabric prepared for application as geotextile, improving the mechanical properties of rupture.

INVESTIGATION OF PARAMETERS OF NONWOVEN FILTER USED IN WHITE CELLS REMOVING

This paper is concerned with the relation between the parameters of nonwoven filter and removing of white cells. Melt-blown polypropylene nonwovens are used as filtration materials of white cells filter. According to the combination of different fiber diameter, different product density and different weight, optimized combination of parameters of nonwoven filter with more effective removing of white cells is obtained. The result is that removing of white cells is 96.90 percent; recovery of red cells is 92.27 percent.

INTROMISSION OF WATER-REPELLENT AND HYDROSCOPIC PROPERTIES SIMULTANEOUSLY TO PP BY PLASMA DISCHARGE METHOD

Plasma-induced surface graft copolymerization of acrylic acid on polypropylene non-woven fabric(PP-g-AA)andpolypropylene membrane were reported.The extents of grafting were controlled by the plasma and polymerizationcondition.Hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide was then coupled with the carboxyl group of PP-g-AA to obtain apolyion complex(PIC).At last,CF_4 plasma was used to give PICs hydrophobic property.The moisture regain and water-repellency of the processed PICs was investigated.The surfaces were characterized using ATR FT-IR and XPS.The resultindicates that the products have very high ability to adsorb moisture,even better than cotton fiber.At the same time,theproducts show excellent hydrophobic property,which can't be wetted by those reagents whose surface tensions were higherthan 327 mN/m.