Machine drying of laundry, which enables faster reuse of clothes, is becoming more and more widespread in the modern world. With a huge amount of research, electricity consumption and thus greenhouse gas emissions have fallen sharply. Further research will increasingly focus on quality of drying, such as laundry properties during and after the drying cycle. As part of my dissertation, I studied the influence of drum speed on damage and wrinkling during machine drying of laundry. At three different drum speeds, I measured the mass of trapped fibres on the filter with a cotton swab and developed and evaluated a quantitative method to determine different degrees of synthetic fabric wrinkling. The results showed that the maximum damage occurs at standard drum frequencies.
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