Melt-electrospinning on pilot scale -thinking ahead technologically

摘要

The demand for microfibers for various applications, such as filtration, has increased due to more stringent environmental requirements and new legislations. Melt-electro-spinning is a promising technology for producing new microfiber filters. However, currently, a melt-electrospinning technology on a pilot scale, which can operate all requirements of a filter concerning fiber fineness, uniformity of the fiber deposition and cost efficiency, is still not available. The melt-electrospinning plant of Fourne Polymertechnik GmbH from the project MeltESpin (KF2890301HG1) has completed the first step in this direction. However, it has not been possible to fulfil the desired requirements with this plant so far.