Title: Cooling aqueous alkali metal hydroxide liquors by vacuum evaporation with subsequent solids precipitate removal

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Abstract: A method and apparatus for cooling aqueous alkali metal hydroxide liquors such as, for example, caustic soda liquors, involving the vacuum cooling of a body of such liquor in an evaporating chamber having a overhead vapor outlet which communicates with a direct-contact barometric condenser supplied with a stream of cooled alkali metal hydroxide liquor. The cooled alkali metal hydroxide liquor has a vapor pressure below the absolute pressure of water vapor evolved from the body of liquor in the evaporating chamber and condenses the water vapor upon contact therewith. A stream of cooled concentrated alkali metal hydroxide liquor withdrawn from the evaporating chamber is, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, further cooled and solids contained therein, such as, for example, sodium chloride crystals, are then removed in a suitable liquid-solids separation device. At least a portion of the substantially solids-free liquor from the liquid-solids separation device is then transmitted to the direct-contact barometric condenser for use as the condensing medium.


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