Open Source Keratin Based Semi-Synthetic Textile Producer
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Basics
- Part of the Open Source Textile Construction Set
- Creates Consistent, potentially Alpaca / Chinchilla level quality Textiles, From A Diverse Pool of Potential Keratin Based Inputs
- Does so by dissolving keratin based input materials (Wool, Animal Fiber, etc ) and then bringing it out of solution by pumping it through a nozzle into a tank of a different solution, which lowers the solvent's solubility, causing a uniform strand of cellulose fiber to form
- This can then be processed into thread, string, rope, cloth etc.
- The resulting textiles are biological molecule based, but are as consistent as plastic based textiles, unlike solely natural fiber
- The biggest issue is the solvent, nearly all other apsects have been done in industry, and the Open Source Cellulose Based Semi-Synthetic Textile Producer is essentially the same machine
- Said solvent would also lowkey dissolve hair/nails/skin, so not exactly safe...
- Scihouse Inc. has this project on backburner, as well as spider silk in the same machine (the genetic engineering for yeast->spider silk is nearly done (see The Thought Emporium 's videos on the project
Used for
- Textile Production
Industry Standards
Minimum Viable Product
- Modular
- User Maintainable
- User Upgradeable
- Accepts a wide variety of input materials
- DC or AC Powered
- Reuses all chemicals used
- Fits in a standard shipping container ( See Precious Plastic , this will use a similar philosophy)
- Safe
Basic Design
- 1x Input Material Shredder Module
- 1x Shredded Input Material Storage Module
- 2x Input Material Augers
- 1x Unsaturated Solution Storage Tank
- 1x Input Material Dissolving / Solution Saturating Module
- 1x Saturated Solution Storage Tank
- 1x Reformation Solution Storage Tank
- 1x Final Product Extrusion Module + Reformation Module
- 1x Solution Recycling Module
- 6x Liquid Pumps
- 1x Pump/Solenoid Controller Module
- 1x General Control Module
- 1x IO Panel
- 1X Shipping Container
BOM
Internal Links
- Open Source Cellulose Based Semi-Synthetic Textile Producer (A currently used process, by industry, but with cellulose)