Analysis of Polycrystalline Silicon-Photovoltaic Industry’s Key Technologies Development and Influences on its Cost and Energy-Consumption

Abstract

Polycrystalline silicon-photovoltaic industry belongs to high-and-new technology industry, but it produces massive by-products (silicon tetrachloride and so on), even partial chloro-silicane and hydrogen chloride exude into the exhaust in its production process. As a consequence, it not only increases the exhaust processing cost in the polycrystalline silicon-photovoltaic industry, but also increases pollutant discharge of the enterprise. At present, Chinese polycrystalline silicon-photovoltaic enterprises cannot solve technical difficult problems in large-scale production due to lack of coordination of chemical industry. Moreover, polycrystalline silicon has high request of purity that needs quite advanced technology to achieve. This article introduces influences upon production cost and energy consumption with the use of improved Siemens method, and proposes that polytrophic-photovoltaic industry needs to be systematized, normalized and standardized for its healthy development.