PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SILICON METAL-CONTAINING AGGLOMERATES

    公开(公告)号:US20220177315A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17600665

    申请日:2019-04-03

    申请人: WACKER CHEMIE AG

    IPC分类号: C01B33/02

    摘要: Silicon metal-containing agglomerates are produced by agglomerating a mixture of finely divided silicon metal-containing particles having a particle size parameter d50 of not more than 250 μm and in the dry state a silicon metal content of at least 10% by mass, at least one binder containing 90% to 98% by mass of silicon dioxide and having a specific surface area of 15 to 35 m2/g, and water, wherein the mass ratio between finely divided silicon metal-containing particles and binder in the mixture is from 80/20 to 99/1, and the resulting moist agglomerates have a water content of 5% to 15% by mass, and drying the agglomerates.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING TECHNICAL SILICON

    公开(公告)号:US20220162078A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-26

    申请号:US17598412

    申请日:2019-03-27

    申请人: WACKER CHEMIE AG

    IPC分类号: C01B33/037

    摘要: Technical silicon is produced by heating a raw material mixture comprising particulate silicon metal-containing material and a particulate mediator containing at least one of C, O, Al, Ca and Si, to at least 1490° C., forming a liquid silicon phase, and solidifying this phase, wherein the raw material mixture a characteristic number K of from 0.000 to 60, calculated as follows: K = m ⁡ ( SiM ) · d ⁢ ⁢ 50 ⁢ ( SiM ) + m ⁡ ( Med ) · d ⁢ ⁢ 50 ⁢ ( Med ) m ⁡ ( SiM ) + m ⁡ ( Med ) · φ ( equation ⁢ ⁢ 1 ) where m (SiM) is the mass of the silicon metal-containing material in the batch m (Med) is the mass of the mediator d50,SiM is the mean particle size of the silicon metal-containing material, d50,Med is the mean particle size of the mediator, and φ is the mean porosity of the silicon metal-containing material.+