Research & Development

Overview

Ongoing Projects

• There are ongoing projects at the end of financial year 2023-24.
• Antimicrobial Coating of fabric with the help of Herbs i.e. Pom Peel, Puspshankhi and Dragon Peel (In-House)
• Laser cutting and Sealing Equipment.
• Biodegradable Sanitary Napkins
• Conversion of Parali in to Nano Cellulosic materials and Fiber Composition
• High Performance Natural fiber (In-House)
• Deduction of Lignin Content of Banana fibers with chemical and enzymatic treatment.
• Making of different thermal sheet with the help of agricultural waste for low thermal Conductivity.
• Composite making from high performance fabric with Petrotex (In-House)
• Design and development of a sustainable, novel, Ready Made Embankment (RME) for river bank protection and flood control measures (IT Bhuvneshwar as lead partner) and ongoing SERB.

New R&D Project Proposals

• New project proposals (To be Submitted in Ministry of Textiles under NTTM)
• Mulching Net for Agriculture Purpose
• Development of indigenous Dyeing with the help of super critical CO2 dyeing machine
• Development of indigenous Air flow dyeing machine
• Non-woven fabrics from Pineapple GLS Student Work
• Development of solar cell fabric (under thought process)
• 2 Machine development with Yamuna 1. Geo Grid, 2. Coating and Drying Trials
• Biodegradable Sanitary Napkins

Conclusion

It has been concluded that

• It was difficult to make Knitted fabric water resistant. The coated knitted fabric did not withstand much higher hydrostatic head pressure. Comparatively woven fabric achieved more hydrostatic head pressure.
• Coated synthetic fabric did not respond to antimicrobial treatment. It was difficult to make coated synthetic fabric antimicrobial even with laboratory synthesized and commercial antimicrobial agent at higher concentration.
• Woven coated fabric showed higher water resistant property. The fabric showed higher tear strength also.
• Cotton/Lycra fabric showed higher air permeability compare to synthetic fabrics.
• Cotton/Lycra fabric responded better in antimicrobial testing with laboratory synthesized and commercial antimicrobial agent also.
• Field trial have been conducted successfully with farmers.