Featured in Contactless prowess – 06-2011

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Polysilicon production: The Siemens process has been the forerunning technology in the polysilicon production world for the last years. Even with the advent of fluid-bed reactors and vapor-to-liquid deposition, the Siemens process remains the unrivalled popular method. Thus, it was with great interest that pv magazine toured the Schmid Silicon Technology (SST) pilot plant in Schwarze Pumpe, in the east of Germany. SST has their own method; one apparently ready to challenge the rest of the techniques.

By

Shamsiah Ali Oettinger

31 May 2011

The silver maze of pipes gleamed in the sunny end of April day in Schwarze Pumpe. Amongst old industrial reactor towers, rusting pipes from the GDR’s industrial heydays and Vattenfall’s massive power plant, the SST polysilicon production pilot plant was definitely distinct. pv magazine was greeted by complex arrays of pipe work and the rush …

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