Water hyacinth yarns and their transformed materials dyeing machine for developing small and medium-sized enterprises

Abstract

Water Hyacinth Yarns and Their Transformed Materials Dyeing Machine for Developing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises was a research project what an aim for producing a prototype dyeing machine. The machine was used at the small enterprise in Nakhon Prathom province. The dyeing machine was contributed by stainless steel. The outer dimension was 100 centimeters in height, 130 centimeters in length, and 90 centi-meters in width. The inner structure contains with perforate stainless steel drum. It had diameter as 80 centimeters with 90 centimeters length. The container capacity was 27 liters for the raw material as 10 kg of the dry Water Hyacinth Yarns or 5 kg of the dry Water Hyacinth roots. The machine was running test for reactive dyeing process at 80oC for 30 minutes. The machine was achieved for reduce time operation as 5 times and gas consumption as 2.38 times. The break-even point was 1.09 year and B/C as 2.22. Moreover, it can solve the fuzzy yarns problem and the volatile smoke during the tradition dyeing. The knowledge was transferred to the stakeholders at the target area as “Chumchonjaksanpaktobchawha Bann klongnokkratum” enterprise in Nakhon Pra thom province. They were satisfied in this benefit in good to very good level.