New process technology for cleaning heavily soiled work wear applying halogene free organic solvents

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: CR144191-BRE21136

Project closed

Start date 1 May 1994

End date 31 July 1994

Funded under

• Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - CRAFT -, 1990-1994

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Multimatic Reinigungs-Systeme GmbH & Co
Germany

Objective

Washing of heavily soiled work wear will be mainly determined by the costs of waste water treatment and hazardeous waste disposal. Solvent treatments of the state of the art are not in line with necessary performance levels or future ecological requirements. The objective of the planned R&D work is to develop a new technology and machinery for work wear cleaning of low ecological impact and good performance based on a combination of solvent treatments by halogene free solvents and aqueous systems. It should be based on medium polarity solvents or azeotropes containing water and detergents either in a bi-phase system or in sequential treatments. The process techniques should be implemented in a way that hazardeous soils are totally removed from textiles into easily distillable fractions. An economic recovery of the solvent system is to be achieved under the premise of a high security standard, low VOC emissions, and minimum energy demand. Experiences and contacts in metal cleaning of the main proposer will be included in the work to achieve these aims. The project will be carried out under the support of companies in a vertical line including machine producers, chemical industry (solvent and detergent producers) of metrology and safety devices and textile cleaners.
The competitiveness of the (as a rule SME's) European cleaning machine industry and their suppliers thereby will be improved the world market as a consequence of increasing environmental regulations in the developed and border countries in relation to the Japanese and US suppliers. Additionally the market situation of textile rental companies will be improved in relation to the multinational trusts of the disposal industry.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › water treatment processes › wastewater treatment processes
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › volatile organic compounds
• engineering and technology › materials engineering › textiles

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Programme(s)

• FP3-CRAFT - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - CRAFT -, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 2.1.1 - Innovative design tools and techniques
• 2.2.3 - Integrated approach to chemical and process engineering
• 2.3.2 - Engineering

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Multimatic Reinigungs-Systeme GmbH & Co

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Gerdenerstraße 71 ; 49304 Melle ; Germany
• Total cost: No data