TITLE: MECHANIZED SILK REELING MACHINE (2018)

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Studies on the Influence of Seasonal and Regional Aspects on the Quality of Muga Silk
© 2014 Emerald Group Publishing

Muga is an exclusive naturally golden coloured wild silk obtained by the Antherea assamensissilkworm species
grown in the north-eastern region of India. Although many research studies on Bombyx mori silk can be found, but
studies that involve muga silk is uncommon. This article attempts to characterise the muga cocoon of tw o
commercially available crops (Kotia and Jethua) in three prominent muga rearing regions. Reeling studies on these
have also been conducted to assess the regional and seasonal influences on silk reelability performance. Kotia
cocoons are found to possess better cocoon quality and reeling performance in comparison to Jethua muga cocoons.

Utilization of Hybrid energey in domestic silk reeling basin

https://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/5319/studies-on-the-utilization-of-hybrid-energy-in-domestic-silk-reelin
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Originally published in: Tekstilna Industrija, September - 2010

Abstract: Energy consumption for cooking and reeling operation in a domestic reeling unit of 6-basin was
calculated. It is found that on an average 1000 kg firewood is required for production of 60 kg raw silk in
conventional energy management. A new modified energy management process with solar water heating
system and a mini-steam boiler yields a saving of 54% firewood consumption compared to conventional
process.

Introduction
Silk reeling industry is energy intensive in all stages of production like, cocoon drying, cooking, reeling and
re-reeling. Being cottage industry located mostly in villages and towns, the industry depends on firewood and
other different sources of agriculture residues for energy needs. It is estimated that 1,45,000MT/year of fuel
wood and 1,70,000MT/ year of other biomass consumed for production of raw silk in India as other
commercial fuel sources (e.g. coal and LPG) are not favoured due to limitation of price and environmental
pollution.