Sustainable Revamping of Wool Carbonization Systems

Wool Carbonization is an energy consuming process that is traditionally used to depurate wool textile fibers from vegetal residuals, playing a key role in terms of quality of produced fabrics. This article analyzes various solutions for the improvement of the process in order to optimize energy consumption and thus reduce the costs and impact in terms of equivalent emissions of greenhouse gases originated by the carbonization process. In this work authors investigate how the synergic use of different thermal, electrical and mechanical modification of existing machines should led to a much more sustainable and profitable solutions. For the investigation, process simulation models based on primary data have been specifically developed.