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Polyester Fiber Production Guide

The document outlines the process for producing polyester fiber. It begins with preparing raw materials like terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol. These are mixed and undergo polymerization and polycondensation in a reactor at high temperatures. The resulting polymer chips are then melt spun through spinneret holes to produce polyester filaments, which are drawn and wound onto packages or texturized. Polyester is a polymer formed through a condensation reaction between acids and alcohols to create ester groups in the polymer chain.

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Polyester Fiber Production Guide

The document outlines the process for producing polyester fiber. It begins with preparing raw materials like terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol. These are mixed and undergo polymerization and polycondensation in a reactor at high temperatures. The resulting polymer chips are then melt spun through spinneret holes to produce polyester filaments, which are drawn and wound onto packages or texturized. Polyester is a polymer formed through a condensation reaction between acids and alcohols to create ester groups in the polymer chain.

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Flow Chart of Polyester Fiber Production

August 16, 2015 by textile-flowchart

Polyester Fiber: 

Polyester fibers are formed from synthetic polymers, manufactured by the action of
polyfunctional acids with polyfunctional alcohols. The fiber-forming polymer substance is a long
linear polymer with repeating ester groups in its structure. Polyester fiber is also known as
Terylene, Terene, Dacron, etc. It is a manmade fiber of high polymers which are obtained by
esterification of dicarboxylic acids, with glycols or by ester exchange reactions between
dicarboxylic acid esters and glycols. Flow Chart of Polyester Fiber Production is as follows:

Polyester staple fiber production

Flow Chart of Polyester Production

Preparation of raw material


(Terephthalic acid, DMT, ethylene glycol preparation)
↓
Mixing tank
↓
Polymerization in reactor
(Ester interchange and polycondensation, Temperature: 260-2800C, Time: 3-6 hours)
↓
Polymer chips
↓
Melt spinning
↓
Polyester filament produced from spinneret holes
(Monofilament, multifilament)
↓
Drawing
↓
Reeling onto a package or Texturization

Polyester is polymers made by a condensation reaction taking place between small molecules, in
which the linkage of the molecules occurs through the formation of ester groups. Polyesters are
commonly made by the interaction of a dibasic acid with dihydric alcohol: 

HOOC-X-COOH + HO-Y-OH → …OC-X-COO-Y-OCO-X-COO-Y-OCO…

The formation of polyester was studied by Wallace H. Carothers of du Point during the
investigation of polyesters which lead eventually to the discovery of nylon. The development of
polyesters was overshadowed, however, by the polyamide research, and it was not until 1941
that a valuable polyester fiber was discovered. in that year, J. T. Dickson and J. R. Winfield of
the Calico Printers’ Association England made a synthetic fiber from polyethylene terephthalate
by condensing ethylene glycol with terephthalic acid.

After the war, the development of the fiber was carried out under license by I.C.I. Ltd. in the UK
and du Pont in the USA, resulting in the fibers known respectively as ‘Terylene’ and
‘Dacron’. Today, polyethylene terephthalate fibers are being made in many countries, and
modified forms of this fiber are also produced. Other polyesters have become of commercial
importance.

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