Cleaning and Impurity Removal
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Cleaning in the blowroom removes approximately 40–70% of impurities from raw cotton. Impurities can only be eliminated from surfaces of tufts, requiring continuous creation of new surfaces through opening. The cleaning effect is greater for highly contaminated material than for cleaner material. Fibres represent about 40–60% of blowroom waste, meaning roughly equal amounts of good fibres and foreign material are removed.
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Cleaning is one of the most critical and difficult blowroom tasks because foreign matter cannot be eliminated without simultaneous extraction of good fibres. Each machine has an optimum range of treatment; intensifying operation beyond this optimum causes exponentially increasing negative effects on cotton quality including fibre loss, nep formation, and fibre damage.
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