Black Reactive Dye Composition for Chromium-Free Wool Dyeing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current black reactive dyes for wool textiles lack high fixation yield, color fastness, and environmental friendliness, particularly for cashmere, requiring heavy metals like Cr6+ that are environmentally harmful and difficult to manage in wastewater treatment.

Innovation Solution

Development of a new black reactive dye formula represented by specific chemical structures, synthesized through a multi-step process involving diazonium salt preparations and couplings, which eliminates the need for heavy metals by forming covalent bonds with fiber, ensuring high fixation yield and color fastness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If acid mordant black PV is used for black dyeing of woolen textiles, then color fastness and fixation yield are high, but heavy metal Cr6+ must be added which causes environmental pollution and difficult wastewater treatment

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor fastnessVSAvoidenvironmental pollution from Cr6+
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the harmful Cr6+ component from the dyeing system while retaining the desired color fastness and fixation yield properties through a chromium-free reactive dye formulation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent converts the harmful chromium-based mordant system into a beneficial chromium-free reactive dye system that achieves equal or superior performance while eliminating environmental pollution

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

2Ease of manufacture

If acid dyes are used for staining woolen textiles, then the dyeing process is simple, but color fastness is mediocre and damage to wool fiber occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedyeing process simplicityVSAvoidcolor fastness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical bonding mechanism from physical adsorption (acid dyes) to covalent bonding (reactive dyes), transforming the dyeing process to achieve both simplicity and superior color fastness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Object-affected harmful factors

If existing reactive black dyes are used as substitutes for acid mordant black PV, then heavy metal usage is reduced, but blackening and fixation yield cannot reach the same level

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheavy metal reductionVSAvoidblackening and fixation yield
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a composite reactive dye molecule combining multiple functional groups (azo chromophores, reactive halogenated acetyl groups, sulfonic acid groups) to achieve both environmental friendliness and superior performance in blackening and fixation yield

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The new black reactive dyes meet the stringent requirements of the wool textile industry, offering equal or superior performance to acid mordant black PV without using heavy metals, thus being environmentally friendly and effectively addressing wastewater management issues.

Implementation Method 1

forming covalent bonds with fiber, ensuring high fixation yield and color fastness

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCovalent bonding: Chemical Bonding

Implementation Method 2

synthesized through a multi-step process involving diazonium salt preparations and couplings

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectChemical reaction: Chemical Transport Reactions

Data Source

PatentEP2248859B1A black reactive dye and the preparation thereof
Publication Date: 2013.07.10 TIANJIN DEK CHEM
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  • EP2248859B1 patent drawing
  • EP2248859B1 patent drawing

AI summary

The present invention relates to black active dyes and the preparation of the same, and 2,4-biaminobenzene sulfonic acid sodium, H acid, 2,3-bibromopropionyl chloride and dinitroaniline are used as the prime starting materials. Through the process of condensation reaction, diazo-reaction, coupling reaction and post treatment. When adding appropriate of red compositions or orange compositons, hight jet black active black product can be obtained, when using it can stain without adding any heave metals as the addtivites, it can replace the acid mordant black PV used for staining the cashmere and other worsted fabric, it also can be used for staining the fiber, such as cotton, silk, polyamide and so on. The method avoid the product of printing and dyeing wastewater containing heavy metal Cr6+, and promote technological progress of printing and dyeing fields.