The History Of The Formation Of China Soda Ash Industry

Chemical industry in the modern industrial system occupies a very important position, The soda industry is one of the departments of chemical industrial base, The product is an important basic chemical Soda raw materials, And steel, nonferrous metal smelting and heavy industry and paper, glass, textiles, food and other light industry sector and science and culture, people’s lives are very closely related, Prominently in the national economy.Soda ash industry is created the first chemical industry in China, In basic research, industrial technology, production scale and so have a strong foundation. Soda Industry driven the continuous development of the chemical industry, For the chemical industry as well as other science and technology training a large number of engineering and technical personnel.Hou Debang is the founder of China’s chemical industry, Founder of soda ash industry. He invented the "Hou’s Process" so that the two ammonia and caustic soda combined organic production systems, the chemical industry in the history of human writing a glorious page. In the academic community also received a high evaluation, but before the appearance of Hou Debang, Fan Xudong also conducted experiments soda, but not in the industrial manufacturing success.In this paper, the history of the formation as soda ash industry study, first described the historical background of soda ash industry, analysis of the soda ash industry on the social reasons and economic reasons. Focus of this paper is the use of literature analysis, analysis of the soda ash industry-related research to develop this theme of change. This article the development of China’s soda ash industry is divided into three parts. First, the initial stage of the development of soda ash industry:through the development of salt industry in China is based, to further develop alkali industry. Second, the soda ash industry, stage of development: the success of Fan Xudong test manufacturing soda ash, and industrial alkali and failed, Hou Debang between the emergence of the industry contribute to the development. Third, the soda ash industry mature stage of development, the paper found that the formation of soda ash industry, and social factors,"Hou’s Process" the birth, development and Zahn Process on the comparison.