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Rising energy prices and high time pressure at cleaning companies make new solutions necessary. An alternative process could be the cheaper, faster and more hygienic cleaning of textiles with ozone as a cleaning agent.
In addition, ozone has a high potential as a bleaching agent, so that the textile industry uses this process, for example, to bleach jeans clothing.
The ozone washing cycle is several times downstream of the laundry, only takes place at the end of a wash program. Than are the dirt is largely removed from the textiles and that Ozone can “pounce” on the microorganisms. It oxidizes certain membrane components of the cell wall in turn loses its structure. As a result, cell disruption occurs (also known as “lysis” in technical jargon) and one destruction of the microorganism. The reaction time is there depends on the ozone concentration and the type of bacteria. So the two hospital germs Clostridium difficile and Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) within destroyed about 3 minutes; Viruses will appear after about 6 minutes rendered harmless.
The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) sets clear signs against this: It decides down to the smallest detail how clothing must be manufactured in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. And is looking for an alternative to using chlorine and potassium permanganate to bleach jeans – ozone bleaching. Compared to treatment with chlorine bleach, over 80 percent chemicals and almost 70 percent water can be saved.
Tons of water and chemicals are used for the conventional jeans production. It is not only in the third world countries that nowadays textile waste water is discharged into the world’s oceans without being treated. This ecological disaster affects not only our nature, but also all people over the world.
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Ozone is one of the strongest oxidizing agents of all. Because of its high oxidation potential, it reacts with numerous washing liquor ingredients, like the laundry research in Krefeld already reviewed in the mid-1990s. Accordingly, this is responsive Ozone with chromophores, i.e. the coloring building blocks of a molecule, and olefinic compounds (unsaturated hydrocarbons). Its decomposition products formed in alkaline medium – in particular the hydroxyl radicals – have an effect on the other hand very quickly and with almost all wash liquor ingredients.
As the researchers researched, for example, anionic and nonionic surfactants into smaller fragments by ozone be disassembled, which is no longer available for the washing process.
