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US 4,377,564 AGranted
Method of producing silicon
AssigneeLicentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
InventorReinhard Dahlberg
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Abstract
A method of producing silicon comprising producing a plasma in a gas flow laden with at least one silicon compound so that the silicon compound is reduced or decomposed to silicon and transporting the silicon which may have reacted with other material if present in the plasma and reaction products out of the plasma in the gas flow.
Claims43
A method for producing silicon comprising:
- providing a stream of gas;
- generating a plasma in said stream of gas;
- inserting a portion of a molded element containing silicon oxide into said plasma;
- reducing said silicon oxide to silicon in said plasma;
- and transporting the resulting silicon away in said stream of gas.
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