Solvay Process to Make Sodium Carbonate- .
The Solvay Process (also known as the ammonia-soda process), developed in 1861, is the world's major industrial process for the production of sodium carbonate (NaCO 3), or soda ash. Solvay Process History. In 1861, after realizing the polluting impacts of the Leblanc Process, Belgian industrial chemist Ernest Solvay rediscovered and perfected ...