Karakterisasi reaktor plasma berarus positif dengan konfigurasi elektroda titik-bidang dan penerapannya pada kain polyester grey

Abstract

In this research, the effect of corona discharge plasma radiation on polyester knitting fabrics aimed at obtaining characterization of stress, current and distance relationships, obtaining ion mobility values, obtaining irradiated polyester knit fabric characterization, and obtaining SEM results showing morphological changes fabric. The reactor used is a corona discharge plasma reactor with a configuration of positive point of origin with DC high voltage generator, 15x15 cm in size with the number of 100 point needles. Factors affecting non-sample characterization or with polyester knit fabric sample as irradiation parameters include duration of irradiation, electrode spacing, and applied voltage. Based on the results of unsampled characterization and with samples using 10 variations of distance, from 0.9 cm, 2.1 cm, 2.4 cm, 2.7 cm, 3.0 cm, 3.3 cm and 3.6 cm. The result of unsampled characterization shows the current and the resulting voltage is higher than the sample. This, due to the resistivity of the fabric is lower than air resistivity, so the resulting voltage and current are small. Can be seen at a distance of 0.9 cm without sampling a rise in current of 2.5 mA with a magnitude of 0.535 kV, and there is a sample at a current rise at 2.5 mA resulting only a voltage of 0.236 kV. The resulting ion mobility shows that the greater the electrode distance the ion mobility becomes smaller. The water drop test used 5 variations of distance from 1.2 cm, 1.5 cm, 1.8 cm, 2.1 cm and 2.4 cm with duration of 5-35 minutes with 5-minute increments. Water drop test results also show that the longer the process of irradiation of polyester knitting cloth gray, then the absorption time increases. This is shown in the study where the duration of 5 minutes obtained the absorption time of 6.42 seconds while in the duration of 35 minutes obtained time 2.87 seconds. in SEM test results used 3 fabric where the fabric I as control, fabric II and fabric III experienced plasma irradiation. The control fabric has a finer surface than the plasma-treated cloth. SEM test results note that plasma change morphology on polyester fabric, thus increasing the roughness of fabric surface.
Keywords: polyester fabrics, ion mobility, multi-point fields, textile treatment, corona plasma, clashing fabric properties