Cotton trash present with cotton lint can drastically affect the yarn properties and marketability of cotton. Cotton trash usually comes into contact with cotton lint from field to fabric processing operations of cotton. Conventional methods to analyze cotton lint currently do not present the origin of the trash present. Knowing the identity of the trash present with cotton lint can lead to the creation of trash-specific identification and removal devices to ultimately enhance the quality properties of cotton. The results of using vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics to specifically analyze botanical cotton trash types are presented herein.

Vibrational spectroscopic determination of botanical cotton trash samples

245th National Meeting (2013)

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