| Ongoing
Projects sponsored by Ministry of Textiles |
- Development
of zero effluent process for dye-houses.
- Indigenous
Development of Geotextiles for Pavement Overlay.
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| Ongoing
Projects sponsored by Department of science & Technology |
- Design
and Development of ultrasonic transducer and generator
for the textile application
- Design
and Development of Xenon filled Solar Simulator for
light fastness instrument for the textiles.
- Design
and Development of Table top model of Light Fastness
Testing Instrument.
- Design
and Development of Membrane type solute separation
Equipment for Textile Industry to reduce pollution
and facilitate recycling of chemical and to conserve
water during wet processing.
- Design
and Development of Instrument for predicting fabric
Tailorability.
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| Ongoing
projects Sponsored by Defence laboratories |
- ADA
- Aeronautical Development Agency
- CPDC
- Composite Product Development Center
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DRDL - Defence Research and Development Laboratory
- HAL
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
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| Ongoing
Projects sponsored by Ministry of textiles |
- Development
of zero effluent process for dye-houses
| The
problem faced by the wet processors is excessive
use of water in processing and scarcity of water
supply and cost factor are additional problems.
Thus, present project envisages application of recycling
methodology for conserving water using nano-filtration
technique. Research is needed in selecting dyes
that yield a clear filtrate after membrane separation
so that dyers will accept the liquor for recycling.
This methodology will be relevant to the industrial
units and can be adopted by many medium-scale process
houses who can afford installation of tertiary effluent
treatment plants i.e. membrane filtration units. |
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Indigenous Development of Geotextiles for Pavement
Overlay
| Old
times are gone when safety inside a car used to
take a back seat. With the flooding of Indian roads
with sleek, fast cars, safety is also a priority
for the customer. Universally, air bag has proved
a life saver in many a cases. Even though in India
we have been able to come with best of the cars
our ability produce good safety devices like air
bags is not proven. This project envisages developing
an indigenous airbag fabric for the vehicles plying
on the Indian roads. The attempt is to make a light
weight airbag fabric from nylon-6,6 yarn with or
without silicone coating. |
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| Ongoing
Projects sponsored by Department of science & Technology |
- Design
and Development of ultrasonic transducer and generator
for the textile application.
| The
main objective of the project is energy conservation
by development of indigenous transducers (tube resonators).
The proposed transducers will be fitted in a winch
dyeing machine. Development of these tube resonators
and generators indigenously at affordable cost may
encourage the machinery manufacturers to adopt this
technology for energy and time conservation during
textile wet processing. |
- Design
and Development of Xenon filled Solar Simulator for
light fastness instrument for the textiles.
| SASMIRA
has developed the first indigenous light fastness
testing equipment in India. The equipment makes
use of Xenon arc burner, which is the only lamp
known to simulate the entire bandwidth of natural
sunlight, and the exposure times are also reduced
considerably. No such lamps are being made in India
so far .The main objective of this project is to
develop the linear Xenon lamp to be used as solar
simulator in light fastness and allied instruments. |
- Design
and Development of Table top model of Light Fastness
Testing Instrument.
| The
measurement of fastness to light of any dyed substrate
assumes greater significance, exposing the dyed
substrate to natural behavior of the dyed substrate.
Accelerated weathering instruments are available
which are based on creating artificial condition
to stimulate similar exposure to sunlight. This
equipment makes use of the Xenon burner that stimulates
the entire bandwidth of natural sunlight. The exposure
times are also considerably reduced. The objective
of this project is to develop a smaller version
(Table - top model) of the light fastness testing
instrument. |
- Design
and Development of Membrane type solute separation
Equipment for Textile Industry to reduce pollution
and facilitate recycling of chemical and to conserve
water during wet processing.
| The
main objective is to develop appropriate membranes
for ultra-filtration, nano-filtration and reverse
osmosis equipment to separate different components
from exhaust dye liquor (EDL) so that some of the
components e.g. salt in reactive dyeing, PVA size
from desize wastewater, synthetic gums/thickeners
from print blanket wash-liquor can be recycled and
high TDS water can be purified for textile dyeing. |
- Design
and Development of Instrument for predicting fabric
Tailorability
| Fabric
objective measurement is used as a tool for fabric
specification, inspection, product and process development,
process control, quality assurance and agreement
between the buyer and seller of fabric. The existing
instruments for such evaluation viz., Kawabata KES
– F system and SIRO FAST system are expensive
and complex in their evaluation. In view of the
above problems, SASMIRA is working on development
of indigenously, a set of simple, low cost instruments
for predicting the fabric tailorability, quickly
and accurately on the lines of FAST. |
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Research
& Development | Salient
achievements |
