INTRODUCTION

• Nowadays safety and protective textile have become an

integral part in one or other form. Safety and protective
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textile refer to garment and other fabric related

designed to protect the wearer from harsh environmental
items
effects that may result in injury or death.
Materials for manufacturing protective textiles
Classifications of Protective Textiles
 Flame retardant
o Kermel® and Kermel® / Viscose fabrics for
flight suits, station wear and turnout gear.
o Nomex® for military applications
Molten Aluminum splash protective fabric.
o Electrical Arc
 Ballistic protection
o
o p – Aramid woven fabric for hard and soft
ballistic applications
 Lint free antistatic
o Continuous filament polyester / carbon
fabrics
 Medical textiles
o Systemic and non systemic antibacterial
and antistatic fabrics for surgeons gowns,
scrubs and warm up jackets.
 Chemical protection
o Liquid chemical protective fabrics
 UV protection
o Fabrics that offer a UPF rating for the
wearer.
 Industrial work wear
o Component fabrics for chain saw
protection
o freezer suits
waterproof clothing
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 Military textiles
o Uniforms
Routes of Exposure

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Chemical Protective Clothing
CHEMICAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

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 Chemical Protection
• Protective clothing cannot be made generic for all chemical
applications, since chemicals vary in most cases and a particular
CPC can protect only against a limited number of specific
chemicals.

• Important considerations in designing chemical protective

clothing are

– The amount of chemical permeation.

– Breakthrough time for penetration.

– Liquid repellency.

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 Requirements
• Chemical Protective Clothing Should Resist :
Permeation , Degradation, Penetration.
• Durability
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• Flexibility
• Temperature Resistance
• Service Life
Clean Ability

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 Textile Materials
• Ordinary textile materials are generally not considered suitable for protection
against chemicals, however special non-coated textile materials are used for a
variety of applications involving particulates and light liquid spray from relatively
non-hazardous chemicals.

• Though woven textiles are not often found in chemical protective clothing, very
tightly woven, repellent-treated fabrics can provide some very low minimum
protection against liquid exposure.

• More common are nonwoven fabrics that have demonstrated barrier performance
against particles and repellency of liquids.

• Two predominant examples of non- woven fabrics are flashspun polyethylene

(Tyvek) and spunbond/ meltbown/ spunbond (SMS) polypropylene (Kleenguard).

• These textiles are used because of their relatively low cost and because the
materials provide a structure of microfibers that filter out dry particulates and
many water-based liquids.
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 Adsorbent-Based Materials

• These materials include adsorbents, such as

activated charcoal or other sorbent materials.

• Activated Carbon : Activated carbon in very fine

powder or granular form is useful to purify both
water and air. Activated carbon has particular
affinity to organic materials such as solvents used in
printing inks and common coatings.

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Fully Encapsulating Suit With Self-
Contained Breathing Apparatus.

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Extreme COLD
PROTECTIVE
CLOTHING
 Development of Chemical Protective Clothing

Polyester fabric
Cotton
Nonwoven
Activated carbon
Cotton Nonwoven
Cotton fabric

• Formed by five layers

•Outer shell made of polyester as it has low absorption of 2% &
provides good strength to the fabric and polyester has a good
resistance to lab grade chemicals
•Inner layer is made up of cotton fabric as it gives good
absorbency and comfort
•Middle layer comprises of activated carbon sandwiched in
cotton nonwoven
 Radiation
Radiation Protection
Protection
Ultraviolet radiation band

UVA UVB UVC

(320 to 400 nm) (290 to 320 nm) (200 to 290 nm)

Causes little visible

Totally absorbed by
reaction on skin Responsible for
atmosphere &
but decrease development of
doesn’t reach the
immunological skin cancers
earth
response of skin
cells
 Textiles as protection from ultraviolet radiation
Fabric's ability to block UVR dependent on several parameters:
Principal Parameters

Fiber Chemistry Fabric Construction Moisture content Wet Processing History

Porosity Thickness Weight

Dye Fluorescent
Whitening UV-absorbers
Concentration
Agents
Schematic representation of a textile as a barrier to UV radiation
 Electrostatic Protection

The term `electrostatic' or `static electricity' refers to

the phenomenon associated with the build up of
electrical charges generated, for example, by contact
and/or rubbing of two objects. Static electricity is
generated by unbalancing the molecular configuration
of relatively non-conductive materials.
Gore-tex: Antistatic

Source: AVANTEX 2000

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