Armstrong, Westerman & Hattori, LLP
PFC gas recovery process and apparatus
The present invention aims to provide a process and an apparatus for recovering a PFC gas, which can readily bring cooling traps to a cryogenic temperature with a low-capacity refrigerator and can recover a high-purity PFC gas by applying deep freeze separation without the need for a multistage fractionator. To achieve this object, the present invention relates to an apparatus for recovering a PFC gas from a mixed gas containing the PFC gas discharged from a vacuum processing chamber (etching chamber), comprising a cooling trap connected to the exhaust system of the vacuum processing chamber and adapted to freeze and collect a mixed gas discharged from said vacuum processing chamber, a non-PFC gas removal system for removing gases other than the PFC gas from the regenerated mixed gas emitted by vaporization of said frozen and collected gas after the operation of said cooling trap is stopped, and a recovery means for recovering a high-concentration PFC gas freed of gases other than the PFC gas in said non-PFC gas removal system, as well as a process therefor.
Ebara Corporation
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B01D Y02P B01D H01L Y02C
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Junichi Yoichi Tetsuo
Hayakawa Mori Komai