Patent ID: 6261326
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: D06B,D06L,D06M,D06P

Abstract:
A process for introducing a textile treatment material into a textile treatment system, the process comprising:(a) providing a preparation vessel in fluid communication with a textile treatment system;(b) loading a textile treatment material into the preparation vessel;(c) dissolving or suspending the textile treatment material in near-critical liquid carbon dioxide or supercritical fluid carbon dioxide at a first set of temperature, pressure and flow conditions to form a solution or a suspension of the textile treatment material in the near-critical liquid carbon dioxide or the supercritical fluid carbon dioxide in the preparation vessel; and(d) introducing the solution or suspension of textile treatment material into the textile treatment system at a second set of temperature, pressure and flow conditions controllably independent from the first set of temperature, pressure and flow conditions.