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Polyester | Physical And Chemical

Properties Of Polyester
June 26, 2012 Fibre Synthetic Fibers
Polyester is a very important manmade fiber. Polyester is produced with a long chain synthetic
polymer with ester. Polyester is produced by melt spinning process. Here, I have given physical and
chemical properties of polyester fiber which is important to know.

Physical Properties of Polyester: Like cotton or other fiber, polyester fiber consists of some
important physical properties. Important physical properties of polyester are given below.

1. Tenacity: 5 – 7 gm/den
2. Elongation at break: 15 – 30%
3. Elastic modulus: 90
4. Elasticity: Good
5. Moisture Regain (MR%): 0.40%
6. Specific Gravity: 1.38
7. Melting point: 2500C
8. Volumetric Swelling: None
9. Ability to protest friction: Excellent
10. Color: White
11. Light reflection ability: Good
12. Lusture: Bright

Chemical Properties of Polyester: Various types of chemical properties of polyester fiber are given
below:

1. Acids: Good resistance to acids in cold condition. But polyester degrades by H2SO4 at high
temperature.
2. Basic: Good resistance to basic in cold condition but Strong NaOH dissolves polyester in
boiling.
3. E ect of bleaching: Polyester does not a ected by bleaching process.
4. Organic solvent: Organic solvent does not a ect on polyester fiber.
5. Protection ability against mildew: Good
6. Protection ability against insects: Good
7. Dyes: Polyester could be dye with disperse, azoic color and some pigments.

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8. Solvents of polyester: Following are the solvents of polyester:

Chlorinated hydrocarbon.
F3COOH
Phenol (in hot condition)

So, during processing of polyester, we have to consider the physical and chemical properties of
polyester.

14 thoughts on “Polyester | Physical And Chemical

Properties Of Polyester”

June 15, 2013 at 6:41 am

good

Siva

April 23, 2015 at 7:55 am

Dear sir
Please advice us about the price for the fiber which can be use for the
stone finsh
ghassan

best regards
Ghassan

August 6, 2015 at 10:24 am

Hi, I am Onkar, Knit fabric technologist . looking for the suitable polyester yarn /
Nylon yarn for high elongation as well as high stretch at both warp and we
direction in Knit fabric Inter lock based in we knitting.
Onkar
Tiwari
Please suggest the best one. Fabric application is backing of artificial leather for
automotive.

Regards,/Onkar Tiwari

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July 30, 2019 at 9:47 am

Hello sir
Hotmelt is visible in my knitting fabric and there is hot melt patches in shoes
upper how can I resolve this while upper is made please suggest
Karan
Sharma

January 16, 2016 at 10:00 am

Dear Brother

Mohammad Your site is very useful but if you gave the sources from where you are getting
information from that would be great. If we use this site for the project professor
does not accept it you have not references. If possible add the sources.

Best regards
Mohammad

June 8, 2016 at 5:33 am

Hello fellow publisher

love the website.
Maybe you could put in the flammability of polyester, that would be great.
Jacob
Thanks, Jacob

November 18, 2016 at 4:45 pm

Hi, I m Karthik
Just need to know that whether polyester is combustible or not.

Karhtik

December 20, 2017 at 6:07 pm

It is not

Napoleon
Bonaparte

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February 16, 2017 at 8:28 pm

AMAZING I’m doing a research project in science and this is exactly what I needed.
Thank you very much. I will be visiting this website very frequently.

Eva Gerling

December 19, 2018 at 11:44 pm

oh so many physical and chemical properites

Honeylemo
n

April 21, 2017 at 1:57 am

Why doesn’t some smart person, find a way to easily get wrinkles out of
POLYESTER. MY curtains look quell beast. Make something that can be sprayed on
and whoosh, the wrinkles go away. You would make a fortune, polyester would be
Maxine
more popular than ever.
Henson

December 20, 2017 at 6:06 pm

hi onkar, I would suggest the polyester version 3 produced by polyester company’s

incorporated. I think this would be perfect match for you.

Napoleon
Bonaparte

October 23, 2018 at 8:06 pm

Yass done with my science .

Oofyoofer

July 4, 2019 at 2:25 am

Why PET fibre is susceptible to phenol?

Md. Abdul
hannan
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