Quantification of microfibres released during washing of synthetic clothes in real conditions and at lab scale

. In this work, a systematic study aimed at comparing the amount of microfibres released from synthetic fabrics during washing tests performed by using a household washing machine and a lab scale Gyrowash system, a laboratory simulator of a real washing machine, is reported. The obtained results all...

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Published inEuropean physical journal plus Vol. 133; no. 7; p. 257
Main Authors De Falco, Francesca, Gentile, Gennaro, Di Pace, Emilia, Avella, Maurizio, Cocca, Mariacristina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Applied and Technical Physics
Atomic
Complex Systems
Condensed Matter Physics
Cost analysis
Effects and Mitigation Strategies
Fabrics
Focus Point on Microplastic Pollution: Assessment
Fourier transforms
Liquor
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Microfibers
Molecular
Optical and Plasma Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Plastic pollution
Polyesters
Pore size
Public domain
Regular Article
Textiles
Theoretical
Washers & dryers
Washing machines
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Summary:. In this work, a systematic study aimed at comparing the amount of microfibres released from synthetic fabrics during washing tests performed by using a household washing machine and a lab scale Gyrowash system, a laboratory simulator of a real washing machine, is reported. The obtained results allow to conclude that the washing tests performed at lab scale are an effective analytical procedure to perform a low-time/low-cost estimation of the microfibre release from synthetic fabrics.
ISSN:2190-5444
2190-5444
DOI:10.1140/epjp/i2018-12123-x