CHANGE OF SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF COTTON TUFT AND EVALUATION OF BREAKAGE

Abstract

A mathematical model on breakage of cotton tuft in blowing process was introduced in the previous article⁷⁾. In this paper, the change of size distribution of cotton tuft in the Platt type blowing process was examined experimentally and the probability that a tuft undergoes the breakage action, π was obtained from the data, using the theory developed in the previous paper.
Then, using II, the objective function to evaluate the breakage action in blowing is discussed by following equation: where π_ii is element of II.
The application of the function to Platt type blowing process showed that the function appeaas to be resonable.