Low cost routes to high purity silicon and derivatives thereof
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method for providing an agricultural waste product having amorphous silica, carbon, and impurities; extracting from the agricultural waste product an amount of the impurities; changing the ratio of carbon to silica; and reducing the silica to a high purity silicon (e.g., to photovoltaic silicon).
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Mayaterials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1086793
- Patent Number(s):
- 8475758
- Application Number:
- 13/057,058
- Assignee:
- Mayaterials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C01 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS
C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG36-08G018009
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS
Citation Formats
Laine, Richard M, Krug, David James, Marchal, Julien Claudius, and Mccolm, Andrew Stewart. Low cost routes to high purity silicon and derivatives thereof. United States: N. p., 2013.
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Laine, Richard M, Krug, David James, Marchal, Julien Claudius, & Mccolm, Andrew Stewart. Low cost routes to high purity silicon and derivatives thereof. United States.
Laine, Richard M, Krug, David James, Marchal, Julien Claudius, and Mccolm, Andrew Stewart. Tue .
"Low cost routes to high purity silicon and derivatives thereof". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1086793.
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abstractNote = {The present invention is directed to a method for providing an agricultural waste product having amorphous silica, carbon, and impurities; extracting from the agricultural waste product an amount of the impurities; changing the ratio of carbon to silica; and reducing the silica to a high purity silicon (e.g., to photovoltaic silicon).},
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year = {Tue Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
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