Over the years calcium hydroxide and Sodium Sulphide have been used in or unhairing processes. From The three pits system through the short float hair destruction, yet The spent solution has caused a significant, pollution problem. Sharphouse and other workers have shown that the old used lime liquor becomes stronger unhairing agent due to the breakdown of the disulpide link in the hair and The hair roots. This fact leads to the reuse of spent lime solution and recycling after topping the same solution with sulphide and calcium hydroxide. Using and recycling of spent lime solution with the required topping, the pelts were processed from liming through dried crust. The crusts were subjected to physical analysis of tensile strength of 265kg/cm2 and average elongation of 65%and thickness of 1mm. These properties are proved to be satisfactory and well compared with SSMO NO (2016:579) The recycling has been carried out to, ten runs, in each run the hair is satisfactory removed.it is concluded that the recycling can be run indefinitely with subsequent cleaning of filtered cake. The quality of The leather processed is normal with an advantage of environmental protection and saving in chemicals and water. The same procedure was used for chrome recycling for ten times and the leather processed through recycling is proved to be well within SSMO standard. |