Article3 Biotech2018
A sustainable and green process for scouring of cotton fabrics using xylano-pectinolytic synergism: switching from noxious chemicals to eco-friendly catalysts.
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- Synergetic effect of Camellia sinensis waste extract and zinc oxide nanoparticle for improving performance and appearance attributes of viscose fabrics.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Insight into the eminent biotechnological applications of xylanolytic enzymes for sustainable bioprocessing.3 Biotech · 2025Review
- A sustainable approach for cotton bioscouring: reuse of the pectate lyase containing treatment bath.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2022Article
- An environmental management technology for the processing of American aloe fibers using xylano-pectinolytic enzymes.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Eco-friendly scouring of ramie fibers using crude xylano-pectinolytic enzymes for textile purpose.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The objective of this research was to develop an appropriate, eco-friendly, cost-effective bioscouring methodology for removing natural impurities from cotton fabric. Maximum bioscouring was achieved using 5.0 IU xylanase and 4.0 IU pectinase with material to liquid ratio of 1:15 in a 50 mM buffer (glycine-NaOH buffer, 1.0 mM EDTA and 1% Tween-80, pH 8.5) with a treatment time of 60 min at 50 °C and an agitation speed of 60 rpm. The bioscoured cotton fabrics showed a gain of 1.17% in whiteness, 3.23% in brightness and a reduction of 4.18% in yellowness in comparison to fabric scoured with an alkaline scouring method. Further, after bleaching, the whiteness, brightness and tensile strength of the bioscoured fabrics were increased by 2.18, 2.33 and 11.74% along with a decrease of 4.61% in yellowness of bioscoured plus bleached fabrics in comparison to chemically scoured plus bleached fabrics. From the results, it is clear that bioscouring is more efficient, energy saving and an eco-friendly process and has the potential to replace the environment-damaging scouring process with the xylano-pectinolytic bioscouring process.
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