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Beneficial and technological analysis for the recycling of solar grade silicon wastes

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In the current paper, different kinds of silicon wastes during the production of SoG-Si were summarized and the beneficial analyses, such as financial value, energy value, CO2 emissions, and efficiency and energy payback time, were briefly discussed for the recycling of SoG-Si wastes. Possible technologies to recycle and purify SoG-Si wastes were reviewed: such as filtration, sedimentation, solidification control, electromagnetic separation, plasma oxidation, centrifugation, and high temperature remelting process, et al.

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    Anping Dong, Lifeng Zhang & Lucas N. W. Damoah

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Dong, A., Zhang, L. & Damoah, L.N.W. Beneficial and technological analysis for the recycling of solar grade silicon wastes. JOM 63, 23–27 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-011-0006-5

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