Abstract: Process for the manufacture of an industrial aqueous solution of sodium chloride, according to which an aqueous mixture (12) containing an aqueous solution of sodium chloride and of polyvalent metals is prepared by introducing into water (10) a solid product (8) collected from the dry-route treatment, with sodium bicarbonate (4), of smokes (2) containing hydrogen chloride, and the said aqueous medium (12) is treated in order to remove the polyvalent metals therefrom.

Abstract: Method for producing an industrial aqueous sodium chloride solution (22) in which an aqueous solution of sodium chloride (20) containing polyvalent metals and constituting a mother liquor obtained from the precipitation (14) of hydroxides of said metals from an aqueous solution (6) of hydrochloric acid is obtained from washing (3,4) fumes (1) containing hydrogen chloride and originating from the oxidation of chlorinated products, is treated on a chelating Na-type resin. The aqueous sodium chloride solution obtained in this manner has applications in the production of aqueous sodium hydroxide solutions by means of electrolysis or electrodialysis and in the production of sodium chloride crystals by means of evaporation.