Abstract
In recent years, the use of low-environmental impact biotechnology giving rises to new types of treatment in the textile industry. From the environmental point of view, particularly the textile dyeing process constitutes a major pollution problem due to the variety and complexity of chemicals employed. In most industrial vat and indigo, sulphur dyeing processes, all of them are reduced mainly using sodium dithionite. This process produces large amounts of hazardous by-products which increase the costs for waste water treatment. Hence, many attempts are being made to replace the environmentally unfavorable sodium dithionite by ecologically more attractive alternatives, such as organic reducing agents or catalytic hydrogenation and natural reducing agent. In this paper ,a natural reducing agent is introduced that comes from a plant and have been studied on the substance for comparison it with sodium dithionite on vat, indigo and sulphur dyeing on cotton fabrics. The color strength of the samples was analyzed by Reflective Spectrophotometer and the color fastness of them was investigated. The results show that, the use of natural reducing agent in natural indigo dye and sulphur dye is better and for the rest of them has almost good advantage, but it cannot reduce synthetic indigo as well as sodium dithionite. Therefore, with introducing the substance, consumption of chemicals is minimized and vat, indigo and sulphur dyeing should be environmental.
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