The invention relates to a method for producing caustic soda through
electrolysis by replacing part of fine brine with light salt brine, and belongs to the technical field of the production of caustic soda in an
ion membrane process. The method is characterized in that outlet light salt brine is divided into two parts according to the production requirements, one part of the light salt brine enters a brine refining unit after being dechlorinated and denitrified, the other part of light salt brine enters a light salt brine
recovery unit, the light salt brine
recovery unit is characterized by comprising the following process steps: completely converting free chorines dissolved in the outlet light salt brine to NaClO by virtue of a free
chlorine conversion
subunit, concentrating and dehydrating the light salt brine with the free
chlorine being removed by virtue of a concentration
dehydration subunit to obtain recovered light salt brine, recovering the heat of high temperature saturated wet
chlorine by virtue of a preheating
subunit, directly mixing the preheated recovered light salt brine with
raw material fine brine according to a given ratio to obtain a mixture, and electrolyzing the mixture in an
electrolytic cell to obtain caustic soda. The invention also relates to a device for preparing the caustic soda in an electrolytic way by adopting the light salt brine to substitute the fine brine. The light salt brine refining process is simplified, the production cost is low, the electrolytic
waste heat utilization rate is high, a great amount of cheap brine can be used for substituting
solid salt to prepare the caustic soda, and the
chlorine doping rate is more than 90 percent.