Study on Thiourea Dioxide’s Reducing Capacity and its Reactivity with Reactive Dyes

Abstract

In this paper, potential analysis method was applied to study the effects of pH value and temperature on potential and reducing capacity of thiourea dioxide, and the reactivity between thiourea dioxide and reactive dyes as ground shade dyes under simulated printing steaming conditions in aqueous solution was also investigated. The results showed that thiourea dioxide’s reduction potential increased with the rise of pH value and temperature. when temperature was lower than 60 °C, thiourea dioxide had low reactivity with reactive dyes as ground shade dyes, and when temperature was up to 80 °C, thiourea dioxide began to break reactive dyes, which was in accordance with the reduction potential change rule of thiourea dioxide along with temperature.