Abstract: Provided are a process and apparatus for purifying a gas. In accordance with the process, the gas to be purified flows through a hollow dielectric tube. An electric field is created in the gas to be purified by a traveling electromagnetic wave which travels in the dielectric tube and creates, in the gas, an atmospheric-pressure plasma which is not in local thermodynamic equilibrium, for the purpose of dissociating impurities in the gas to form reactive compounds. The formed reactive compounds are reacted with a corresponding reactive material for eliminating the reactive compounds from the gas to be purified.

Abstract: Provided is a process for purfying a gas. In the process, the gas to be purified flows through a hollow dielectric tube. An electric field in the gas to be purified is created by a traveling electromagnetic wave which travels in the dielectric tube and is suitable for creating, in the gas, an atmospheric-pressure plasma which is not in local thermodynamic equilibrium, for the purpose of dissociating impurities in the gas in order to form reactive compounds. The formed reactive compounds are reacted with a corresponding reactive material for eliminating the reactive compounds from the gas to be purified.

Abstract: Process for preparing disilane, wherein a raw gas including monosilane, disilane, trisilane and impurities such as phosphine, hydrogen sulfide, arsine, disiloxane and higher siloxanes, undergoes a step of separation by distillation for the substantial elimination of the other compounds of silicon, except disiloxane, and the substantial elimination of phosphine, hydrogen sulfide and arsine impurities, wherein a final purification of the disilane takes place by selective adsorption on molecular sieves, in which one is a sieve of type 3 A and which is used for the elimination of the siloxanes and hydrogen sulfide and the other is a sieve of type 4 A for the elimination of phosphine and arsine.

Abstract: Apparatus suited for the vertically superimposed parking of a pair of motor vehicles including at least a first platform mounted for pivoting between a loading-unloading position and a position which permits access to a storage area located beneath the platform. The apparatus is characterized by the platform being mounted for pivoting about a geometric axis oriented transversely of the platform and located so as to impart a balance-like equilibrium to the entire platform assembly.