Low cost routes to high purity silicon and derivatives thereof

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8475758
APP PUB NO 20110206592A1
SERIAL NO

13057058

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The present invention is directed to a method for providing an agricultural waste product having amorphous silica, carbon, and impurities; extracting from the agricultural waste product an amount of the impurities; changing the ratio of carbon to silica; and reducing the silica to a high purity silicon (e.g., to photovoltaic silicon).

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LAINE RICHARD M1375 FOLKSTONE CT ANN ARBOR MI 48105

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Krug, David James Ann Arbor, US 1 4
Laine, Richard M Ann Arbor, US 54 1106
Marchal, Julien Claudius Ann Arbor, US 1 4
Mccolm, Andrew Stewart Ann Arbor, US 1 4

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