Melt Blown Fabric Making Machine
critical inner filtration layer of a mask
allowing the wearer to breath while reducing the inflow of possible infectious particles
Photos of Melt Blown Fabric Production Line
More About TOPTECH Meltblown Lines & Meltblown Fabric
TOPTECH can build high-performance melt blown production line. We can design and produce the entire equipment to meet your needs. If you want to launch new production line, we’ll help you.
Our meltblown nonwoven fabric production line can produce high quality PP meltblown fabrics. The meltblown equipment runs stably, with high output and high efficiency.
Melt Blown Fabric Machine Specifications
Melt Blown Fabric Line 3D Assembly Drawing
Layout of Meltblown Line
Process Flow of Meltblown Production Line
Equipment List of Meltblown Fabric Production Line
Meltblown Spinneret Die Head
What is Melt Blown Fabric
Melt Blown Fabric Applications
Factors Affecting the Quality of Meltblown Fabric
Melt Blown Fabric Final Product
FAQ
Melt Blown Fabric Machine Specifications
| Model | Product Width (mm) | GSM Range (g/sq.m) | Capacity (T/d) | Max Speed (m/min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UM-1200 | 1200 | 10~200 | 1.2 | 80 |
| UM-1600 | 1600 | 10~200 | 1.6 | 80 |
| UM-2400 | 2400 | 10~200 | 2.4 | 80 |
| UM-3200 | 3200 | 10~200 | 3.2 | 80 |
Melt Blown Fabric Line 3D Assembly Drawing
Process Flow of Meltblown Production Line
The melt-blown process uses high-speed hot air to draw a thin stream of polymer melt extruded from the die orifice, thereby forming ultra-fine fibers and condensing on the screen or roller, and relying on self-adhesion and become a non-woven fabric.
The process flow is:
Polymer mixing -> Melt extrusion -> Filter -> Melt pump -> Die -> Electret treatment -> Winding system
- Resin Dryer/Resin Transfer Machine
- Screw Extruder
- Gear Pump Unit
- Heating System for Hot Air
- Melt-blown Box (T-Die, Distribution, Spinneret)
- Collection Device (Conveyor or Drum)
- Winding Machine
- High-voltage Electrostatic Electret Device
Meltblown fabric is a non-woven fabric made by melt blown method with high MFI (1200/1500/1800 g/10min, Condition 2.16kg, 230°C) PP as the main raw material.
The melt blown method is a spinning method that uses a high-speed hot air flow to rapidly stretch, solidify, and shape a polymer melt that has just been extruded. The advantage is that the process flow is short, and the non-woven fabric can be directly produced by spinning.
The fiber diameter of the melt-blown cloth can reach 1 to 5 microns. With many voids, fluffy structure, and good fold resistance, these ultra-fine fibers with unique capillary structure increase the number and surface area of fibers per unit area, thus making the melt-blown cloth have good filtering, shielding, heat insulation, and oil absorption .
The most important reason why the melt-blown fabric is much better than ordinary non-woven fabrics is the electret treatment. Through electret treatment, the PP meltblown fabric is charged with static electricity, which can effectively absorb and block viruses.
Melt-blown Fabric Applications
- Medical and sanitary cloths: surgical gowns, protective clothing, sterilization wraps, masks, diapers, sanitary napkins, etc.
- Fabrics for home decoration: wall stickers, tablecloths, bed sheets, bed covers, etc.
- Cloth for clothing: lining, adhesive lining, flakes, shaped cotton, various synthetic leather base fabrics, etc.
- Industrial fabrics: filter materials, HEPA filter, insulating materials, cement bags, geotextiles, covering fabrics, etc.
- Agricultural cloth: crop protection cloth, seedling raising cloth, irrigation cloth, thermal insulation curtain, etc.
- Others: space cotton, thermal insulation and sound insulation materials, linoleum, cigarette filter, tea bags, etc.
1. MFI of Polymer Raw Materials
Meltblown fabric is the best filter for masks. It is a very fine material. The inside is made up of a lot of crisscross microfibers stacked in random directions. Taking PP as an example, the higher the MFI, the finer the wire drawn during melt-blown processing, and the better the filtration performance.
2. Hot Air Velocity
Under the same temperature, screw speed and receiving distance (DCD) and other conditions, the faster the hot air speed, the smaller the fiber diameter, the non-woven fabric feels softer, and the more fiber entanglement, resulting in more dense and smooth fiber web Strength increased.
3. Hot Air Jet Angle
The hot air jet angle mainly affects the drawing effect and fiber morphology. The smaller angle will cause the fine flow to form parallel fiber bundles, resulting in poor uniformity of the non-woven fabric. If the angle tends to 90°, a highly dispersed and turbulent air flow will be generated, which is conducive to the random distribution of fibers on the screen curtain, and the resulting melt-blown cloth has good anisotropy.
4. Receive Distance (DCD)
Too long acceptance distance will lead to a decrease in the vertical and horizontal strength and bending strength, the non-woven fabric feels fluffy, and in the melt-blown process will lead to a reduction in filtration efficiency and filtration resistance.
5. Screw Extrusion Speed
Under the condition of constant temperature, the screw extrusion rate should be kept within a certain range. Before a certain critical point, the faster the extrusion speed, the higher the quantitative amount of melt-blown cloth, and the greater the strength; when the critical value is exceeded, the strength of the melt-blown cloth decreases.
Meltblown Fabric Final Product
The final melt blown fabric produced by our production line can be BFE95 (Bacterial Filtration Efficiency), however the testing result is better than BFE98.
FAQ
PP plus electret masterbatch (2-3%).
Usually it is high MFI PP. ExxonMobil and Daelim have such meltblown use PP resin. We (TOPTECH New Materials) produces premium quality meltblown PP resin as well. Polyone and Clariant has electret masterbatch for PP meltblown fabric.
For UM1200, it is 800-1200kg/day, for UM1600, it is 1200-2000kg/day. The throughput is really related to quality of the fabric. The finer fiber, better filtration efficiency and lower throughput. We collect all these data from our lines.
The diameter of spinneret hole is 0.25mm, the distance between two holes is 0.55mm.
Yes, even slitting machine is included as well.
Yes, service is our core competitiveness. But travel cost is excluded.
For UM1600, 400KVA transformer is required. Average consumption is 180KW/HR approximately.
We can put it inline. But we do not recommend putting it inline. It can cause more troubles when you change the width.
Currently it is dedicated to face masks filter media. With little modification, it can produce other materials such as wiper and oil absorbent felt.
Yes, the line has to run 24 hours continuously, because every start-up requires minimum two hours heating-up. Every start-up and stop costs some waster.