Innovative and Emerging Technologies for Textile Dyeing and Finishing

With the public enhanced awareness towards eco-preservation, eco-safety and health concerns, environmentally benign, nontoxic and sustainable bioresource materials produced mainly from non-food crops have revolutionized all industrial sectors particularly textile industry. In recent years, textile industries in developed countries are getting increasing interest in global interest due to the varied and changing world market conditions in terms of price, durability and fiber mixtures as well as design, colors, weight, ease of handling and product safety. The increasing environmental and health concerns owing to the use of large quantities of water and hazardous chemicals in conventional textile finishing processes lead to the design and development of new dyeing strategies and technologies. Effluents produced from these textiles wet processing industries are very diverse in chemical composition, ranging from inorganic finishing agents, surfactants, chlorine compounds, salts, total phosphate to polymers and organic products.

This aspect forced western countries to exploit their high technical skills in the advancements of textile materials for high quality technical performances, and development of cleaner production technologies for cost effective and value-added textile materials. Therefore, vast and effective research investigations have been undertaken all over the world to minimize the negative environmental impact of synthetic chemical agents through the sustainable harvest of eco-friendly bioresource materials.

The book will discuss following research developments in academic and industry:

• Improvement in dye extraction and its applications
• Impact of textile dyeing on environment
• Textile finishing by natural and ecofriendly means
• Natural dyes as environmental-friendly bioresource products
• Textile effluent remediation via physical, chemical and biological processes.

Luqman Jameel Rather, PhD, is currently working as senior visiting scholar at the College of Textile and Garments, Chongqing, China with Prof. Qing Li. He earned his doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2017. He has published about 50 research publications in high impact scientific journals of international repute and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award through the National Agriculture Development His research is focused on functional finishing of textile materials.

Aminoddin Haji, PhD, obtained his PhD from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Yazd University, Iran. His area of interest is surface modification of textiles; natural and synthetic dyeing of textiles and Nanotechnology in textiles and wastewater treatment. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals (ISI and Scopus) and presented more than 50 papers in international conferences.

Mohd Shabbir, PhD, joined Wuhan Institute of Technology, School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy in September 2019 as postdoctoral researcher. Prior to that he had been working as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Sanskriti University (Mathura/India), and NIET, greater Noida, India. He obtained his PhD in 2017 from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has edited two books in the Wiley-Scrivener imprint.