National Textile University

B.Sc. Textile Engineering

Practical Lab Report / Fall-2018

Course Code: TE-3112

Course Title: Fiber science

Practical No. 1
Determine of cotton fiber 2.5% spam length,50% spam
Title of Practical length, uniformity ratio and short fiber content using
spin lab fibro graph 530

Student Name Imran khan

Registration No. 17-NTU-0067

Semester/Group 3rd/2

Date of Lab Report Submission 10/10/2018

Submitted To Amir Shehzad

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Contents
1. Title 2
2. Abstract 2
3. Introduction 2
4. Instrument 2
5. Procedure 2
6. Result 3
1. Uniformity ratio 3
2. Short Fiber Content 3
3. Data 3
7. Calculation 3
4. Uniformity Ratio 3
5. SFC 3
8. Conclusion 4

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1. Title
Determine of cotton fiber 2.5% spam length,50% spam length, uniformity ratio and short fiber
content using spin lab fibro graph 530

2. Abstract
In Fibrograph, fiber samples are presented in the form of a pair of
carefully prepared fringes. The light transmitted through these fringes
is monitored by photoelectric current. The amount of light passing
through the fiber sample is linearly proportional to the number of
fibers in the light path. The changes in the photoelectric current are
recorded graphically in the form of a Fibrogram. From this Fibrogram
various length parameters of practical interest, such as span length,
mean length (OM), upper-half mean length (OR) and index of
uniformity, given as the ratio of OM to OR, can be analyzed.

3. Introduction
The original idea of the photoelectric scanning or Fibrograph method
has been developed by Hertel in 1940 for testing cotton lint. This test method is much faster
Fig,1than
Fibrosampler
the array method and is used widely in fiber laboratories for measuring fiber length and length
distribution. These tests are performed with a Fibrograph instrument, which is a
photoelectric device

4. Instrument
1. Fibrogram
2. Cotton
3. Fibro sampler
4. brush
Cotton
5. Procedure
1. First, I set the fibrogram device
2. I put fiber sample inside the cylinder of sampler.
3. I took or clam cotton fibers on the comb with help of fibrosamplar
4. Then I used brush to straight the length of fibers
5. Then I put cylinder of sampler in side the fibrogram machine
6. I noted five time reading

6. Result
1. Fig 2,
1. Uniformity ratio
fibrogram
50 % SL
×100
2.5%SL
2. Short Fiber Content
50.01−¿(0.766×2.5 %SL)−¿(81.48×50 %SL)

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3. Data

S, Short fiber 2.5% SL 1 mm 50% SL 2 mm

No content
1. 772 24.56 12.44
2. 701 26.50 12.87
3. 679 24.67 12.14
4. 678 26.09 12.19
5. 897 26.82 14.08

Mean 25.928 12.784

7.
Calculation
4. Uniformity Ratio
50 % SL
¿ ×100
2.5%SL
12.784
¿ ×100
25.928
= 1.3775
5. SFC
= 50.01−¿(0.766×25.928)−¿(81.48×12.784)
= 50.01−19.928−1041.640
=−1018.558

8. Conclusion
Its not good cotton because the result given in negative value.so not better cotton