HPQ Releases First Ever Gen2 PUREVAP™ Video of Liquid Silicon Metal Tapping
May 23 2019 - 10:33AM
HPQ Silicon Resources Inc. – (
www.HPQSilicon.com) (TSX-V: HPQ),
(OTCPink: URAGF), (FWB: UGE) is pleased to
announce the receipt of a video from PyroGenesis Canada Inc
(“PyroGenesis”) (TSX-V: PYR) demonstrating a Silicon Metal
Melt Drainage (Tapping) test, which is part of the continuous
development testing with our Gen2 PUREVAP™ Commercial Scalability
Proof of Concept platform.
DRAINAGE OF LIQUID SILICON MELT AT THE
BOTTOM OF REACTOR (TAPPING) CRITICAL TO PROCESS
Drainage of silicon metal (tapping) is one of
the most important aspects of the disruptive process being
developed. In order to test design efficiency and to generate
computational studies to predict the tapping behaviour of liquid
silicon in the Gen3 pilot plant, a few silicon melting and tapping
tests using the Gen2 reactor have been conducted to date. The
video was produced during one of these tests.
SIMULATED TAPPING DONE USING
GEN2
The Gen2 reactor was ramped up to operating
parameters and once it reached operating temperature, as-received
Si was introduced into the reactor for effective melting. The
video sequence starts when the reactor is opened until all the
liquid silicon metal is drained out.
LINK TO VIDEO ON HPQ WEBSITE:
https://hpqsilicon.com/#gen2
Mr. Bernard Tourillon, President and CEO of HPQ
Silicon Resources Inc stated: “We are very excited to be able to
present to our stakeholders our first ever video of the Gen2 in
action. This video gives life to our tests. Tests that
are demonstrating the incredible versatility of our Gen2 PUREVAPTM
QRR platform, highlighting the advancement being made on the
project and toward de-risking the Gen3 commercial scalability
testing phase”.
Pierre Carabin, Eng., M. Eng., Chief Technology
Officer and Chief Strategist of PyroGenesis has reviewed and
approved the technical content of this press release.
This News Release is available on the
company's CEO Verified Discussion Forum, a moderated social
media platform that enables civilized discussion and Q&A
between Management and Shareholders.
About HPQ Silicon
HPQ Silicon Resources Inc. is a TSX-V listed
resource company focuses on becoming a vertically integrated and
diversified High Purity, Solar Grade Silicon Metal (SoG Si)
producer and a manufacturer of multi and monocrystalline solar
cells of the P and N types, required for production of high
performance photovoltaic conversion.
HPQ’s goal is to develop, in collaboration with
industry leaders, PyroGenesis (TSX-V: PYR) and Apollon Solar, that
are experts in their fields of interest, the innovative PUREVAPTM
“Quartz Reduction Reactors (QRR)”, a truly 2.0 Carbothermic process
(patent pending), which will permit the transformation and
purification of quartz (SiO2) into high purity silicon metal (Si)
in one step and reduce by a factor of at least two-thirds (2/3) the
costs associated with the transformation of quartz (SiO2) into SoG
Si. The pilot plant equipment that will validate the commercial
potential of the process is on schedule to start in
2019. Shares outstanding: 222,284,053
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For further information,
contactBernard J. Tourillon, Chairman, President and CEO
Tel (514) 907-1011 Patrick Levasseur, Vice-President and COO Tel:
(514) 262-9239 www.HPQSilicon.com
Photos accompanying this announcement are available at:
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