Toagosei Company, Ltd.

Kanemasa Takashima

Hiromu Taguchi

Masatoshi Morita

Tatsuya Kanie

Kouji Ishikawa

Disclosed is a method for producing chloropolysilane by which the yield of a fluid reaction to produce the chloropolysilane is improved while blockage in a reactor caused by attachment of higher-order silicon chloride as a by-product is prevented. In producing the chloropolysilane by reacting fluidized silicon particles or silicon alloy particles with a chlorine gas, an outlet filter is provided, upstream from a product outlet that releases a reaction product, above the area in which the silicon particles or silicon alloy particles are fluidized inside a reaction tank. The outlet filter prevents fine particles blown up by fluidization from flowing out of the reaction tank through the product outlet. A temperature of the outlet filter is set in a range of 210 to 350&#xb0; C.

Method for producing chloropolysilane and fluidized-bed reactor

A chlorination reaction can be carried out at a relatively low temperature by heating a mixture of granular metallic silicon and metallic copper or a copper compound in an inert atmosphere even when the metallic silicon has a high purity and does not contain aluminum and titanium and that chloropolysilane of high purity can be obtained by further adding metallic silicon as needed after the chlorination reaction is started.

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Tokai, Japan

Kanemasa Takashima