The lifetime of a fluidized bed reactor containing silicon particles, for the production of chlorosilanes is greatly extended by armoring at least a portion of the reactor shell interior wall with expanded metal coated with a cement containing ceramic particles.

Provided is a method of preparing trichlorosilane, more particularly, a method of preparing trichlorosilane which trichlorosilane can be obtained with an improved yield using a catalyst-supported silicon.

The present invention relates to a method for producing trichlorosilane. The method includes dispersing metal silicon particles in liquid silane-based compounds containing tetrachlorosilane and optionally reacting the metal silicon particles with hydrogen chloride in the presence of hydrogen gas.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing trichlorosilane from tetrachlorosilane in an efficient manner. The apparatus includes an inlet through which reaction raw materials including a metal silicon powder dispersed in liquid tetrachlorosilane enter, a hole through which a gaseous reaction raw material is fed, an outlet through which reaction products including trichlorosilane exit, a tubular reactor in which the reaction raw materials entering through the inlet react with each other during flow, and means for impeding the flow of the fluids to cause collision of the fluids during flow.

The present invention is for the recovery of maximum silicon value of kerf silicon waste, produced during the manufacture of silicon wafers by wire saw, diamond saw and chemical mechanical polishing, as high purity metallurgical silicon. This recovery is achieved by a process scheme that effects an initial removal of minor extrinsic metallic impurities but not the major silicon compound impurities, and followed, preferentially, by a direct metallurgical process to form elemental silicon. The recovered silicon is for use as feedstock for polysilicon manufacturing, as high purity polysilicon for PV application, and in metallurgical alloy manufacture.

Improved hydrochlorination reactors, which have a larger internal volume and hence functional capacity than presently available hydrochlorination reactors, may be prepared with reactor walls having inner and outer layers where each layer provides a unique benefit, the inner layer having hydrogen chloride resistance and the outer layer having high strength at elevated temperature and pressure. Alternatively, or additionally, hoops may be disposed along the outside of the reactor wall to provide additional strength to the reactor during operation. Specified materials may be used to form the reactor wall in order to provide both acid resistance and high strength at elevated operating temperatures.

Chlorosilanes and methods of producing chlorosilanes. The process for producing chlorosilanes includes the step of selecting a chlorosilane having a general formulae (1) H.sub.nSiCl.sub.4-n and (2) H.sub.mCl.sub.6-mSi.sub.2 wherein n is 0 to 3 and m is from 0 to 4. The chlorosilane selected is then placed within a fluidized bed reactor. A hydrogen chloride-containing reaction gas is reacted with a particulate contact mass containing silicon at temperatures of 280 C. to 400 C. Where the operating granulation, understood as meaning the granulation or granulation mixture introduced into the fluidized bed reactor, contains at least 1% by mass of silicon-containing particles S described by a structural parameter S and wherein S has a value of at least 0 and is calculated as follows

[00001]$S=\left({}_s-0.70\right).Math.\frac{{}_{\mathrm{SD}}}{{}_F}$

Wherein .sub.S is symmetry-weighted sphericity factor, .sub.SD is poured density [g/cm.sup.3], and .sub.F is average particle solids density [g/cm.sup.3].

A dehydration method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first dehydration step of bringing hydrogen chloride gas (21) and concentrated sulfuric acid (13A) into contact with each other; and a second dehydration step of bringing hydrogen chloride gas (21A) that has been obtained through the first dehydration step into contact with concentrated sulfuric acid (13B). A concentration of the concentrated sulfuric acid used in the second dehydration step is higher than a concentration of the concentrated sulfuric acid used in the first dehydration step.