Completion of second test campaign
SINTEF finally completed the second pilot campaign demonstrating silicon metal production from kerf-loss wafer manufacturing and quartz crucible waste. A 4 days 24 hour full shift with many challenges to solve was successfully accomplished this morning 16 May!
[VIDEO] ICARUS – M30 General Assembly in Cyprus: Presentation of UCY and project’ advancements
1 month ago, ICARUS' partners joined for the M30 meeting of the project in Nicosia. Theodora Kyratsi and Birgit Ryningen talk about project' advancements, in particular regarding WP6 - High End Applications, in this video filmed at the University of Cyprus.
[VIDEO] ICARUS – Waste Assessment
Waste assessment aims to collect information about other processes outputs and their properties beside the product. This assessment allows to know if we have a waste or a byproduct and if it is hazardous or not. The results of the
[VIDEO] First pilot campaign: Production of Silicon metal utilising waste from the PV industry
Northern Silicon AS and SINTEF have joined forces and successfully conducted a first pilot campaign, during which for the first time we produced silicon metal utilising waste from the PV industry. In this campaign, virgin high purity quartz raw material
WCPEC 8 sessions
Poster presentations Yijang Xu from SINTEF at the WCPEC-8 in Milano, presenting newest results on the inventory of waste materials from silicon ingot and wafer manufacturing. The associated paper is also available. The poster made by Wolfram Palitzsch and Ingo Röver (LuxChemTech)