
Industrial Manufacture of Sodium Carbonate
Industrial Manufacture of Sodium Carbonate
Introduction
On industrial scale the sodium
carbonate or soda ash (Na2Co3)
is
prepared by Solvay’s process and is was developed by the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay (complete name
is Ernest
Gaston Joseph Solvay)
during 1860s.
Explanation
In 2005 the amount of soda
ash was 42 billion kilograms about where three fourth of which was prepared by
Solvay’s process and he remaining amount was mined...