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Get PriceThe properties of silicon can be used to modify alloys with metals other than iron Metallurgical grade silicon is silicon of 95 99% purity About 55% of the world consumption of metallurgical purity silicon goes for production of aluminium silicon alloys silumin alloys for aluminium part casts mainly for use in the automotive industry
Get PriceThe quartz or quartzite or silica sand SiO2 is mixed with coke and heated in a submerged electrode arc furnace The SiO2 is reduced to SiC SiO2 3C = SiC 2 CO Mg at temperatures between
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Get PriceMetallurgical grade silicon MG Si is produced through the reduction of quartz with carbon In order to be used for solar applications the silicon needs to be further processed Directional solidification is often used to purify the silicon as seen in the multicrystalline casting process
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Get PriceThe precursor material for both electronic grade silicon and solar grade silicon is metallurgical grade silicon Once solar grade silicon is produced the subsequent processing steps are as follows wafer production solar cells manufacture A short description of these processing steps will be given in the paper
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