A process for recovering sodium carbonate decahydrate crystals from solutions
and
mother liquors supersaturated in sodium bicarbonate concentration. Feed liquors
containing higher levels of sodium bicarbonate than traditionally fed to a sodium
carbonate decahydrate crystallizer are used to create a mother liquor within a
sodium carbonate decahydrate crystallizer that is supersaturated with respect to
sodium bicarbonate. Substantially pure sodium carbonate decahydrate crystals may
be precipitated from the supersaturated mother liquor without substantially precipitation
of sodium bicarbonate containing crystals.