Study of Heat Conduction inside Rolling Calender Nip for Different Roll Temperatures

Abstract

Calendering is a smoothening process at the final stage in textile industry, where fabric passes through the nips formed by two or more rolls in contact. The material used for making of rolls varies for different types of calenders. Depending on the quality of fabric required these rolls are hard or soft and can be heated to certain temperature, using induction process, hot water passage or heated oil passage inside the rolls. In rolling calendering process, fabric is pressed between two or more rolls, where nip is formed by the combination of alternate hard and soft rolls. In this paper effect of roll temperature and bonding time on fabric temperature has been discussed using single nip rolling calender, when fabric is inside the calender nip formed by hard and soft rolls having different temperatures using one dimensional unsteady state heat conduction equation.