Relationships between coagulating bath conditions and stretching and deswelling behaviors of polynosic filaments in coagulating baths of the wet spinning was studied. Diameter, velocity distribution and volume of the filaments were measured using the methods previously reported.
The results are summarized as follows.
(1) Stretching point of the filament (positions where stretching of the viscose filaments takes place) gets near to the spinnerette surface as H
2SO
4 concentration in coagulating bath becomes higher. Deswelling of the filament is accelerated by higher H
2SO
4 concentration.
(2) Addition of Na
2SO
4 makes the stretching point of the filament more distant from the spinnerette surface. Relatively low concentration of Na
2SO
4 suppresses deswelling of the filament, but higher concentration of Na
2SO
4 accelerates the deswelling.
(3) Small amount of ZnSO
4 makes the stretching point of the filament near to the spinnerette surface markedly. ZnSO
4 accelerates the deswelling at the early stage and suppresses at the later stage.
(4) When formaldehyde is added to the coagulating bath, stretching point of the filament gets near to the spinnerette surface. The deswelling is accelerated slightly.
(5) Higher γ-value of viscose makes the stretching point of the filament near to the spinnerette surface.
Comparing the changes in the diameter, velocity and volume of the filament, it was found that the decrease of the diameter of the filament in the early stage was attributed to the stretching of the filaments, whereas the decrease in the later stage was attributed to the deswelling of the filament. Conversely, one can estimate the stretching and the deswelling behaviors separately from the diameters of the filament, if they are measured accurately.
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