Featured in CIG-nalling change – 12-2011

On-site generated fluorine

Materials: With an increasing emphasis on manufacturers maintaining “green credentials”, Paul Stockman, the Fluorine Technology Manager for Linde Electronics, says that on-site fluorine generation can reduce PV’s carbon footprint.
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PV manufacturers are continually looking for ways to minimize their carbon footprint during the module production process. The use of on-site generated fluorine is a safe and reliable alternative to greenhouse gases in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chamber cleaning, reducing the global warming potential (GWP) by hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 equivalent per …

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