MARIANA DANIELA BERECHET1, MARIA DANIELA STELESCU1*, ELENA MANAILA2, GABRIELA CRACIUN2 1National Research and Development Institute for Textile and Leather-Leather and Footwear Research Institute, Rubber Research Department, 93 Ion Minulescu Str., 031215, Bucharest, Romania 2National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Electron Accelerators Laboratory, 409 Atomistilor Str., 07712...

Twelve ruminally cannulated steers (Angus x Holstein; average initial BW = 533 +/- 3.28 kg) were randomly allotted to one of three treatments (four steers/treatment) to evaluate the use of pretanned leather shavings as a component of a protein supplement for steers grazing dormant intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium Host). Steers were allotted to one of three treatments: 1) no suppl...

in the present work the magnitudes of pigments in the synthetic leather, were measured by means of scanner. initially synthetic leather samples pigmented by three different pigments of yellow, blue and red colors were prepared. then the pigmented samples were scanned, and the values of rgb of images were calculated. the artificial neural network (ann) method used to make relation between rgb va...

leather manufacturing involves a crucial energy-intensive drying stage in the finishing process to remove its residual moisture. determining drying characteristics of leather is vitally important so as to optimize the drying stage. this paper describes an analytical way for determination of the drying characteristics of leather. the model presented, is based on fundamental heat and mass transfe...

skin and leather characteristics of hair-type goats were studied in relation to their sex and age, using 100 randomly-selected skin from goats reared in east west iran. mean weights of skin and leather were 859.2±35.2 and 357.4±16.2 g, and the length and width of leather ranged from 60 to 121 and 41 to 87 cm, respectively. age had a significant effect on the weight and area of skin and leather....

Highly toxic contaminants like Cr, As, and Pb were detected in chrome-tanning process of animal skin to produce leather by applying locally developed laser-induced breakdown spectrometer. An Nd-YAG laser with 1,064 nm wavelength was focused on the surface of leather samples (natural and manufactured) to generate a plasma spark and spectrally resolved spectra were used for identification and qua...