The invention discloses a mercerized cotton knitted fabric production process and equipment, and relates to the technical field of knitted fabric production. Comprising the following steps: S1, selecting cotton yarns, and weaving the cotton yarns into gray fabric; s2, singeing the gray fabric through singeing equipment, and then leveling and cooling the gray fabric; s3, pretreatment of the grey cloth: soaking the grey cloth in a solution with 0.8%
pectinase and pH of 5.5, and treating the grey cloth at 45 DEG C for 40 minutes to remove impurities; and
microwave treatment: setting the output power of
microwave equipment at 300-500W, and irradiating the gray fabric for three minutes to enlarge the micropores on the surface of the
fiber. In the production process,
enzyme molecules are used for selectively hydrolyzing a
fiber amorphous region, the alkali dosage is reduced, meanwhile, the
fiber swelling uniformity is improved,
microwave irradiation is conducted on grey cloth before mercerizing, a
wax layer on the fiber surface is damaged, alkali liquor
permeation is promoted, the pH value of
wastewater is reduced, the
wastewater can be directly subjected to biochemical treatment, bio-
enzyme catalysis and low-alkali mercerizing are combined, and the mercerizing effect is improved. The reaction efficiency is enhanced through microwave pretreatment, and the technical
bottleneck of a traditional high-alkali process is broken through.