I'm looking for information on chemical plants that would have used this process in the 1920's and 30's. I have a basic idea of what it is, but I'd like more information on the raw materials in, and the finished products out, especially how they would have shipped during this particular period.
Basically, power and sodium chloride (salt) go in, and hydrogen gas, chlorine gas, and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda/lye) come out. right? But I want to know how much.
The salt would come in in hoppers, the lye and chlorine would go out in special tank cars. But how was hydrogen shipped at this time?
I think that hydrochloric acid would be shipped out. Sodium hypochorite is another product likely to be produced, although perhaps to so much back then.
I would recommend visiting websites of chemical companies, especially those that specialize in chloralkail (such as Olin Chlor Alkali) to see if you can find ratios.
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Thanks ndbprr! Could you tell me more about the soda ash plant?
Have you checked the Library of Congress American Memory web site?
<> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
<> <>There was nothing on chloralkali but a number of listings for chlorine and alkali were returned from the search field.
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