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AWTA रॉ वूल की प्रमुख सेवा, चिकने ऊन की बिक्री से पहले उसकी उपज और रेशे के व्यास का स्वतंत्र नमूनाकरण, परीक्षण और प्रमाणन है। उपज और रेशे के व्यास के मापन से पहले, एक प्रतिनिधि नमूना प्राप्त करना आवश्यक है। AWTA नमूनाकरण अधिकारी की देखरेख में बिक्री के प्रत्येक लॉट में प्रत्येक गठरी से एक कोर नमूना लिया जाता है। नमूना लेते समय गठरी का वजन दर्ज किया जाता है।
 
उपज, एक मानक नमी मात्रा पर, स्वच्छ रेशे की वह मात्रा है जो कच्चे ऊन के एक पैकेट के प्रसंस्करण से उत्पन्न होने की उम्मीद है। उपज को किलोग्राम में स्वच्छ द्रव्यमान के रूप में और प्रसंस्करण से पहले कच्चे ऊन के द्रव्यमान के प्रतिशत के रूप में व्यक्त किया जा सकता है।.

Our Process

Yield is calculated by first determining the amount of clean dry fibre (Wool Base) and Vegetable Matter Base (VM).The amount of residual components that remain are determined and subtracted in order to obtain the Wool Base. These residual components are:

  • Residual Wool Grease – A small amount of grease is left in the wool after scouring. This amount is determined using Near Infrared Reflection Spectrophotometry (NIR) Residual
  • Ash – Almost all the dirt is removed by the scouring process except for small amounts. These amounts are determined using NIRVM – A sub-sample of the scoured wool is dissolved in 10% solution of hot caustic soda, leaving the VM behind to be dried and then weighed.
  • VM is composed of Burrs (B), Seed & Shive (S) and Hard Heads & Twigs (H) 

Once all the residual components have been measured, the Wool Base is calculated. The Wool Base is calculated by expressing the weight of wool with the impurities removed as a percentage of the original scoured wool weight. The Wool Base is then used to calculate various commercial yields.

Fibre Diameter is the thickness of individual wool fibres, its measurment is used to determine the end-use of the wool. Fibre diameter is measured using a Lasercan instrument, results are reported in microns. A conditioned sample of scoured wool is mini-cored to produce a sub-sample consisting of snippets of fibre. The snippets are dropped into a bowl containing water and mixed before the water containing the suspended snippets is released and flows in tubing through a measurement cell containing an array of lasers. As the snippets move through the laser beams in the measurement cell the size of the shadow cast by the individual fibres is recorded.

For a standard test samples are measured on four separate Laserscan instruments and 1,000 individual fibres are measured on each machine. The combined results from 4,000 snippets, are used to calculate the Mean Fibre Diameter. Measurements are made on individual fibres, as a result a distribution of the diameters are accumulated and the Coefficient of Variation of Diameter (CVD) calculated. In addition, the final certificate will show the Fibre Curvature of the fibres in the sample and the Comfort Factor of the sample.

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