Method and system for producing silane

US6905576B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• SOLARWORLD AG · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Dieter Block · Cologne, DE
• Hans-Joachim Leimkühler · Leverkusen, DE
• Dirk Müller · Essen, DE
• Johannes-Peter Schafer · Lingen (Ems), DE
• Georg Ronge · Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 14, 1999
• Grant date: Jun 14, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 14, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S203/06
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to a continuous process for the preparation of silane by catalytic disproportionation of trichlorosilane in a reactive/distillative reaction zone having a catalyst bed of catalytically active solid.