EFFICACY OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLES ON WORKWEAR FABRICS FOR MARINE ENGINEERS

Abstract

A drape of leaves and animal skin for protection is dated back to Stone Age revealing the need newlinefor a material to protect the largest sensory organ, the skin from environment. The textile industry newlinetoday has marched into the scenario of product diversification where much functionality is offered in newlineadvanced levels. Technical textiles enhance the value addition of the products and have become newlineincreasingly popular due their safe applications and satisfying demands which were the predominant newlineexpectations from a consumer. They have also recorded footprints in various disciplines like agrotech, buildtech, clothtech, geotech, hometech, indutech, medtech, mobiltech, oekotech, packtech, protech newlineand sporttech Amongst the various disciplines of technical textiles, protective textile is one area in which newlinepriority is needed much for their functional and performance properties and their contribution in the newlinedefence textiles is becoming the need of the hour. Merchant navy, a cadre of naval division focuses newlinemainly on commercial transactions and deal with the shipping of goods from one place to another. newlineAlso merchant shipping includes cargo liners, chemical tankers, oil tankers, gas tankers, passenger newlinevessels and with few more divisions. Among the divisions in merchant navy, oil tanker ships play the newlinerole of exploration of the oil source and involves in the discharging of oil from one port to another. newlineThe oil tanker ships are operated under the control of marine engineers and officers whose sole responsibility is to carry and discharge oil and its related products like petroleum, crude oil and many newlinemore related. The marine engineers when involved in these tasks face certain multilevel hazards and are newlineexposed to adverse weather conditions when they shift from the port of one country to another where climate gets diversified. Further while wearing their workwear namely, boilersuit, they are exposed to major problems like oil or grease spray, high pressure steam and spilling of acids.