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INTRODUCTION Today’s slogan in the international textile or any other market is quality, so the production or yield % stand at second priority, no doubt high production is an even demand of world population. Contamination free textiles are the ultimate target of the manufacturer along with other quality control applications. Page 3
Cotton sorter is used for foreign material detection in the blow room. The contaminants are removed by means of very fast pneumatic ejectors. Cotton sorter is useful to improve the quality of raw material and also upgrade the low quality cotton bales by removing contamination. Page 4
Definition of contaminants
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Contaminants in cotton can be described as a deviation in color and size The line camera interprets a defect as color level deviations The contaminant size is defined as a combination of contaminant width and contaminant length
Some contaminant Regions High level of contamination India, Pakistan, Sudan , Uzbekistan, Syria, Egypt Lower level of contamination Argentina, Israel, Mali, USA, China, Turkey, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa Page 6
The CottonSorter in the blow line
Detect foreign fibres and contaminants in raw cotton ▪ jute parts, packaging material, parts of cloths, burnt tufts, oil, dirt, plastic, feathers, etc. ▪ wood, leaves, branches, stones, etc.
Remove the contaminants by means of very fast pneumatic ejector
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Affect of contamination (present in cotton bale) on constructed fabric If a 3cm by 3cm contaminating rag is present in a cotton bale then
Output of the card is 20 meter contaminated sliver
Output of a two step drawing process (E=8x8) is 1280 meter contaminate sliver.
Output of a spinning spindle (E=150) is 192.000 meter contaminated yarn.
In this yarn there will be a contamination each 5 meter.
The fabric construction will result in 6 contaminations/cm .
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Cotton Sorter in Blow Room Line
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Auto-Plucker ↓ Multi Mixer ↓ 3-Roller Opener ↓ Cotton-Sorter ↓ Heavy Particle Remover ↓ Integrated Opener ↓ Vertical Opener ↓ Deduster
COTTON SORTER in practice
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Characteristics
Enclosure sealed for dust protection
W=1.75 m H=1.24m L=1.55 m
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Power consumption 2 kW
Rectangular ducts to guide the cotton in a perfect way through the sensor tube
Pneumatic ejector to remove the contaminants
Waste basket for ejected contaminants
The key words of the Cotton Sorter
Installed in the opening line after the first opener
Using 4 very fast CCD cameras
No influence of environment
Easy to operate
Easy to maintain
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Working principle mirror
camera’s
windows ejectors
speed sensor
waste basket Page 13
The COTTON SORTER in practice
Pneumatic ejector
Detection area
Ejector area
Waste basket Electronic cabinet Page 14
Inside the COTTON SORTER
Tube with windows for camera’s 100% transparent (glass plate) Page 15
Inside the COTTON SORTER • CCD line scan cameras – 2594 pixels • Illumination by 16 light tubes – High frequency light (28 kHz) – White light spectrum – Two year life time
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The ejection system
20 valves-10 msec. reaction time-50 msec. blow time Ejection of about 10 grams of material Pneumatic requires 80 psi filtered air Page 17
CottonSorter: Layout
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SPECIFICATIONS
Detection of color deviation in cotton
Minimum 1x1 cm² detection surface guaranteed
(85-90)% effectiveness at stable flow (compensation with speed sensor)
▪ with cotton tufts smaller than the size of a fist ▪ with clean optics ▪ optimal setting of parameters Page 19
Comparison of Cotton Sorter BARCO and Loptex Cotton Sorter
Efficiency Production Detection Speed Rate Method Sensor (%)
BARCO
85-90
1200
Cameras
Yes
Loptex
80-85
1000
Sensors
No
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Kg/hr
Keep it cool Air conditioner Eliminate the influence of outside temperature fluctuations. Keep the inner side of the cabinet in perfect operating conditions. Avoid penetration of humidity inside the enclosure. Page 21
Why install a COTTON SORTER ?
65 girls/shift – Bangladesh
200 girls/shift – Mainland China Page 22
Independent of the operator’s goodwill Upgrade possibilities for low quality cotton bales Improve the quality of raw material input Evaluation of cotton suppliers Higher and constant quality of the end product Higher efficiency in the spinning and winding processes Less complaints from customers
THANKS Page 23