Innovation cleaner production

Innovation: a key factor for cleaner production – The case of
Technical textiles and its role in reducing global pollution

Dr. Sabri MOURAD

mourasab@yahoo.fr

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Dr. Sabri MOURAD
• Qualifications
• PhD. degree from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine” in mechanical sciences

• Mechanical Engineer degree from the Engineering school of Nancy/France

• Master of project management from Mulhouse university/France

• Master of business Administration from Strasbourg Business School/France

• Professional Skills
• Research and Development Director in Albany International specialized in building
advanced machines and development of new products.

• Innovation associated teacher in the University of Alsace in France (Master)

Summary

Introduction: Innovation, cleaner production and technical textiles

Technical textiles sector, what is this?

Technical textiles innovations to reduce global pollution and energy consumption
- case of composites
- case of filtration fabrics

Innovation Efforts of technical textile producers to obtain Eco labels.

Conclusions



Intense
Cleaner New innovation
production technologies activity

Cleaner production = Innovation to develop reliable, simple and efficient new technologies

Global Cleaner production strategy impacts strongly the textile sector in the western world
and leaded to a strong growth of the technical textile industry.



Eco label ling and clean production are not just an opportunity for traditional textile
industry to make more environment friendly products

It is an opportunity to transform this industry into intense innovation industry with
extremely high added value delivery

The aim of this presentation is present the technical textile industry and some
innovations conducted to reduce the global pollution and create very high
added value products.



Agrotech – Horticulture,
Meditech – Personal
Agricultural, Forest
Hygiene, Medical

Buildtech – Construction, Mobiltech – Car,
Lightweight engineering Ships, Aircraft,
Space

Oekotech – Recyling,
Clotech – Garment, Shoes Waste Disposal

Geotech – Road & Rail Packtech - Packing
Infrastructure

Protech – Person &
Hometech – Furniture & Property Protection
Furnishing

Indutech – Filtration & Sporrtech – Sports &
Chemical Engineering Leisure

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Technical Textile Sectors Year
2005 2010
Volume Value Volume Value
Mobiltech 2 828 26 861 3 338 29 282

Indutech 2 624 16 687 3 257 21 528
Sporttech 1 153 16 052 1 382 19 062
Buildtech 2 033 7 296 2 591 9 325
Hometech 2 499 7 622 2 853 8 778
Clothtech 1 413 7 014 1 656 8 306
Meditech 1 928 6 670 2 380 8 238

Agrotech 1 615 6 568 1 958 8 079
Protech 279 5 873 340 6 857

Packtech 2 990 5 329 3 606 6 630
Geotech 319 927 413 1 203

Total 19 681 106 899 23 774 127 288

Source: Tex-Summit 2007 held on 31st August- 1st September 2007

World Market for technical textiles was estimated to be around 19.68 MT
valued at USD 107 billion during 2005, which is expected to increase to
23.77 MT valued at USD 127 billion by 2010

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Paper Machine Clothing - PMC

Fine and dense woven structure with very high retention capacity


Industrial Process filtration Technology

Filters for removing particles from gas
streams and the reduction of air
pollution

Standard and advanced shaped filter
bags for coal fired boilers

A combination of woven and non woven fabrics create powerful filters to clean
the air of industrial plants from particles


Technical textiles innovations to reduce global pollution

- Case of filtration fabrics for paper industry

Making paper is a technology based on the filtration of pulp to remove 100 m3 of
water for each tonne of paper produced.

All filtration process in paper industry is made thanks to woven filters made by
technical textile producers.

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To get an Eco label in paper industry it is needed to :

- Criteria 1 : Reduce water pollution by chemicals

- Innovation 1 : Develop new woven fabrics with higher density of yarns an higher
retention capacity

- Criteria 2 : Decrease energy consumption per production unit

- Innovation 2 : Develop new ultra thin fabrics to decrease the water content of paper




To get an Eco label in paper industry it is needed to :

- Criteria 3 : Increase the use of recycled fibers

- Innovation 3 : Develop new fabrics and yarns highly resistant to contaminants and
stickies created by the use of recycled fibers.

Thanks to many innovations made by technical textile industry, paper makers can
apply for eco-labels and make more environment friendly products.



- Case of 3D woven based composites in aerospace

To get an Eco label in aviation industry it is needed to :

- Criteria 1 : Decrease fuel consumption

- Criteria 2 : Decrease carbon emissions

- Criteria 3 : Decrease noise patterns

- Technical textiles Innovation : Develop a wide family of 3D woven composites to reduce
considerably the weight of air planes and the noise level.




3D weaving technology is
commonly based on
special jacquard looms

This technology allows
building thick preforms
and very complicated
shapes

3D weaving + RTM
technologies open doors
to make high
performance mechanical
pieces




RTM-
Fanblade

Boeing 787 Landing
Gear Braces

Source: Albany International Website www.albint.com




woven turbine rotors

Cylinder and flange have
hoop, radial and axial
fiber orientation
Source: Albany International Website www.albint.com




Use of composites in Commercial Transport Aircraft is continuously increasing

A350 target is 60% of its structure in
The Boeing 787 has 50% of its primary composite
structure made of composites.




Environmental Benefits of 3D woven based composites

Decrease the total mass of aerospace equipments and reduce fuel
consumption. Boeing 787 consumes 20% less fuel compared to other
airplanes of its category.

Reduce the energy needed to produce the airplane. Composites
manufacturing technologies versus metallic based technology

Reduce the amount of scrapped materials to make pieces in the case of
woven composites compared to metallic pieces which needs to be tooled.

Reduce the consumption of spare parts due to higher lifetime and higher wear
resistance.


Innovation Efforts of technical textile producers to obtain Eco labels

Technical textile industry has also its own ambitions to obtain Eco-
labels. Many development projects are initiated in this area:

- Develop new yarns using recyclable materials.
- Introduce new resins based on bio materials or with better
recyclability (at least better than Epoxy for composites).
- Increase the life time of fabrics and composites.
- Reduce the waste issued by the process by the introduction of new
control technology to reduce scrapping.


Conclusions

Obtaining Eco-labels is a vital issue for all industries today to meet
customer and society attempts

This trend is a real innovation motor for technical textiles sector:

- To introduce and to develop new technologies to get its own Eco labels

- To develop new products to help customers to obtain their own Eco
labels and to make environment friendly products.

- Technical textiles sector shows how Eco labeling is a real motor for
modern economies to create more values and to ensure sustainable
development


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