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Cleaning process and cleaning agent for harmful gas

US6638489B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 21, 2001
Grant dateOct 28, 2003
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Expiry dateFeb 9, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01D53/72
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

There are disclosed a process for cleaning a harmful gas which comprises bringing the harmful gas containing as a harmful component, an organosilicon compound represented by the general formula: CH2CH—SiR3, CH2CH—Si(OR)3, CH2CHCH2—SiR3 or CH2CHCH2—Si(OR)3, wherein R indicates a saturated hydrocarbon group or an aromatic compound group, into contact with a cleaning agent comprising activated carbon adhesively incorporated with at least one species selected from the group consisting of bromine, iodine, a metal bromide and a metal iodide in which the metal is exemplified by copper, lithium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, zinc, aluminum and tin; and a cleaning agent comprising the same. The cleaning process and the cleaning agent enable to practically clean a harmful gas which is exhausted from a semiconductor manufacturing process and the like by the use of a dry cleaning process.

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