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The consumption of energy and carbonaceous reductants is one of the more important factors that significantly influence the cost of industrial silicon production. The effect of raw materials on the silicon yield and the energy consumption in the process of producing silicon was investigated in this study using data collected from various submerged arc furnaces. Following analysis of a large quantity of industrial data, the results showed that a 12.5 MVA submerged arc furnace was the most efficient in utilizing the consumption of coal. In addition, the 8 MVA furnaces consumed the petroleum coke (petcoke) more efficiently in a silicon production process. To decrease the raw materials consumption and the energy loss in an industrial silicon production process, the petcoke/coal ratios for the 8 MVA and 12.5 MVA furnaces should be 1.25∼1.4 and 0.4∼0.6, respectively, for the production of one ton of silicon.
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The authors are grateful for financial support from the NSFC (No.51334002 and No.51461027) and the Program for Innovative Research Team in the University of Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. IRT1250).
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Chen, Z., Ma, W., Wu, J. et al. A Study of the Performance of Submerged Arc Furnace Smelting of Industrial Silicon. Silicon 10, 1121–1127 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-017-9584-3
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