A by-product mixture produced when polycrystalline silicon is deposited on
a base material in a CVD reactor is made to react with chlorine to form a
tetrachlorosilane (STC) effluent in a chlorination reaction vessel, and
the tetrachlorosilane (STC) distillate is made to react with hydrogen in
a hydrogenation reaction vessel to be converted into trichlorosilane
(TCS). In the chlorination step, poly-silane contained in the above
described by-product mixture can be efficiently recycled as a raw
material for producing the polycrystalline silicon, which can enhance a
yield of the production process. In addition, in the chlorination step,
methyl chlorosilanes having boiling points close to TCS are
hyper-chlorinated to be converted into hyper-chlorinated methyl
chlorosilanes having higher boiling points, which facilitates the
hyper-chlorinated methyl chlorosilanes to be separated into high
concentration, and reduces carbon contamination of the polycrystalline
silicon.