Method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of sodium reduction roasting
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of secondary resource recycling, and particularly relates to a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of reduced sodium roasting.
Background
The lithium ion battery has the advantages of light weight, large energy density, long cycle life, no memory effect and the like, and is widely applied to the fields of portable electronic equipment, power automobiles and the like. However, the service life of the lithium ion battery is generally 3-6 years, and a large amount of waste lithium ion batteries are generated in the huge lithium ion battery application market, wherein the waste lithium ion batteries contain valuable metals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and the like and toxic electrolyte, and improper disposal not only causes environmental pollution, but also causes resource waste. Therefore, the method has multiple meanings of resource recovery and environmental protection for the recovery of valuable metals in the waste lithium ion batteries.
At present, the recovery of valuable metals in waste lithium ion batteries at home and abroad is mainly divided into a fire-wet combined process and a full-wet process. The combined fire-wet process is to remove the adhesive in the waste lithium ion battery by high-temperature smeltingOrganic matters such as a caking agent, a diaphragm, electrolyte and the like, and simultaneously, metals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese, copper, aluminum, iron, lithium and the like enter an alloy phase and a slag phase respectively, and then the recovery of valuable metals in the alloy phase and the slag phase is realized by adopting a wet process. For example, the American company in Belgium directly puts untreated waste lithium ion batteries into an pizza furnace for high-temperature smelting, most of lithium is discharged along with smoke dust, a small part of lithium and aluminum are fixed by slag phase, and metal elements such as copper, iron, manganese, cobalt, nickel and the like enter alloy phase and then are sent into a wet refining system to recover copper nickel cobalt. The investment of fixed assets such as high-temperature smelting equipment and the like in the fire-wet combined process is large, only the recovery of metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt and the like in an alloy phase is concerned, lithium is dispersed in smoke dust and slag, the recovery difficulty is large, and the yield is low. The full wet process mostly adopts a technical route of firstly recovering nickel, cobalt and manganese and then extracting lithium, and mainly comprises the working procedures of pretreatment, leaching, impurity removal, extraction, concentration crystallization or neutralization precipitation and the like. The method comprises the steps of dissolving metals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, copper, iron, aluminum and the like into leachate together through reduction leaching, purifying and removing impurities such as copper, iron, aluminum and the like, separating and enriching nickel, cobalt and manganese through solvent extraction, and preparing nickel-cobalt-manganese sulfate or a ternary precursor through concentration crystallization or coprecipitation. The whole wet process has long process flow and multiple working procedures, and lithium is dispersed in intermediate products such as purified slag, raffinate, concentrated mother liquor and the like in each unit process in a disordered way, so that the recovery rate of the lithium is very low; meanwhile, hydrogen peroxide, sodium sulfite and SO are required to be added in the leaching process2The reagent is used as a reducing agent to improve the leaching rate of cobalt and manganese, and the reducing agent has high reagent consumption and high production cost.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention provides a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of reduced sodium salt roasting, which is characterized in that the waste lithium ion battery powder and sodium sulfate are mixed, reduced sodium salt roasting treatment is carried out through innovation, then pure water leaching is carried out, preferential selective extraction of lithium is realized, meanwhile, a nickel-cobalt-manganese valuable metal phase is converted from a high-valence oxide into a low-valence oxide easy to acid leach under a reducing atmosphere, and favorable conditions are created for recovering nickel, cobalt and manganese through subsequent wet leaching.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of reduced sodium roasting substances comprises the following steps:
(1) mixing waste lithium ion battery powder and sodium sulfate according to a preset molar ratio, and performing ball milling for a preset time to obtain a mixture;
(2) placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in an electric furnace to perform reduced sodium roasting at a preset temperature, wherein the obtained reduced sodium roasting product is called calcine;
(3) leaching the calcine in the step (2) by using pure water to obtain a lithium-containing leaching solution and conversion slag;
(4) and (4) leaching the conversion slag obtained in the step (3) by using sulfuric acid to extract valuable metals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and the like.
Further, the waste lithium ion battery powder in the step (1) is black powder produced by crushing and sorting waste lithium ion batteries, and the contained positive electrode material is one or a mixture of lithium manganate, lithium cobaltate and a ternary material.
Further, in the step (1), sodium sulfate is anhydrous sodium sulfate produced by a lithium salt preparation and ternary precursor synthesis system in a lithium battery material enterprise.
Further, the molar ratio in the step (1) is the molar ratio of lithium to sodium sulfate in the waste lithium ion battery powder (n)Li:nNa2SO4) The ratio of the raw materials to the mixed powder is 1:0.5-2, and the mixing and ball milling time is 0.5-3 h.
Further, the reaction temperature of the reduction sodium roasting in the step (2) is 500-850 ℃, and the reaction time is 1-4 h.
Further, the reaction time of pure water leaching in the step (3) is 0.5-4h, the reaction temperature is 30-98 ℃, and the liquid-solid ratio is 3-10: 1.
Further, the acid concentration of sulfuric acid leaching of the conversion slag in the step (4) is 0.5-4mol/L, the reaction time is 0.5-3h, the reaction temperature is 30-98 ℃, and the liquid-solid ratio is 4-20: 1.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial technical effects that:
(1) the technical route of 'firstly recovering nickel, cobalt and manganese and then extracting lithium' of the existing full-wet process is changed, lithium in waste lithium ion battery powder is de-intercalated from crystal lattices and converted into water-soluble lithium sulfate through reduction sodium roasting, efficient and preferential extraction of lithium can be realized, elements such as nickel, cobalt, manganese, iron, aluminum and the like are hardly leached, the impurity content of leachate is below 1mg/L, and the purification and impurity removal burden of a lithium salt preparation system is greatly reduced.
(2) Graphite in waste lithium ion battery powder is used as a reducing agent, indissolvable high-valence nickel, cobalt and manganese compounds in the battery powder are converted into low-valence oxides easy to dissolve in acid in the sodium salt roasting process, favorable conditions are created for recovering nickel, cobalt and manganese through subsequent wet leaching, and leaching rate of valuable metals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and the like in the conversion slag is more than 99% through sulfuric acid leaching without adding the reducing agent.
(3) The lithium battery material enterprise lithium salt preparation and the synergistic comprehensive utilization of the byproduct sodium sulfate produced by the ternary precursor synthesis system are realized, and the production cost is low.
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Detailed Description
The method for selectively extracting valuable metals from the waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase transformation of the reduced sodium roasting substance is further described below with reference to specific embodiments.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1, this example provides a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase transformation of reduced sodium roasting substance, which includes the following steps:
(1) the waste ternary battery powder is used as a raw material, and mainly comprises the following components: li4.5wt%, Ni20.0wt%, Co7.6wt%, Mn11.7wt%, Cu0.09wt%, Fe0.03wt%, Al0.3wt%, and C28.5wt%. Waste ternary battery powder and sodium sulfate are mixed according to a molar ratio nLi:nNa2SO4Mixing and ball milling for 1.5h in a ratio of 1:1 to obtain a mixture.
(2) And (2) placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in an electric furnace, and reducing and sodium-treating for roasting for 1.5 hours at 750 ℃ to obtain roasted sand.
(3) And (3) leaching the calcine obtained in the step (2) by pure water, reacting for 2 hours at 80 ℃ according to the liquid-solid ratio of 8:1 to obtain a lithium-containing leaching solution and conversion slag, wherein the lithium-containing leaching solution can be used for preparing lithium salt products such as lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
(4) Reacting the conversion slag for 1h according to the liquid-solid ratio of 5:1, the temperature of 60 ℃ and the sulfuric acid concentration of 2mol/L, filtering to obtain leachate containing nickel, cobalt and manganese, and preparing the battery-grade nickel-cobalt-manganese sulfate through the working procedures of extraction, purification and the like.
Detecting the content of each element in the obtained leachate, and calculating that the leaching rate of Li in the calcine water leaching procedure reaches 92.53 percent, the leaching rates of Ni, Co and Mn are all lower than 0.5 percent, and the contents of other impurity ions are all lower than 1 mg/L; in the acid leaching process of the conversion slag, the leaching rates of Ni, Co and Mn are respectively 99.81%, 99.51% and 99.56%.
Example 2
The embodiment provides a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of reduced sodium roasting, which comprises the following steps:
(1) the waste ternary and lithium cobaltate mixed battery powder is used as a raw material, and the main components of the waste ternary and lithium cobaltate mixed battery powder are controlled to be Li6.57wt%, Ni5.93wt%, Co42.37wt%, Mn3.79wt%, Cu0.93wt%, Fe0.08wt%, Al0.38wt% and C24.59wt%. Waste lithium battery powder and sodium sulfate are mixed according to a molar ratio nLi:nNa2SO4Mixing and ball milling for 1.5h at the ratio of 1:1.2 to obtain a mixture.
(2) And (2) placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in an electric furnace, and reducing and sodium-treating for roasting for 3 hours at 700 ℃ to obtain roasted sand.
(3) And (3) leaching the calcine obtained in the step (2) by pure water, reacting for 3 hours at 40 ℃ according to the liquid-solid ratio of 5:1 to obtain a lithium-containing leaching solution and conversion slag, wherein the lithium-containing leaching solution can be used for preparing lithium salt products such as lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
(4) Reacting the conversion slag for 2 hours according to the liquid-solid ratio of 10:1, the temperature of 60 ℃ and the sulfuric acid concentration of 3mol/L, filtering to obtain leachate containing nickel, cobalt and manganese, and preparing the battery-grade nickel-cobalt-manganese sulfate through the working procedures of extraction, purification and the like.
Detecting the content of each element in the obtained leachate, and calculating that the leaching rate of Li in the calcine water leaching process reaches 93.06 percent, the leaching rates of Ni, Co and Mn are all lower than 0.5 percent, and the contents of other impurity ions are all lower than 0.8 mg/L; the leaching rates of Ni, Co and Mn in the acid leaching process of the conversion slag are respectively 99.45%, 99.75% and 99.67%.
Example 3
The embodiment provides a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of reduced sodium roasting, which comprises the following steps:
(1) the waste ternary and lithium manganate mixed battery powder is used as a raw material, and the main components of the waste ternary and lithium manganate mixed battery powder are controlled to be Li6.25wt%, Ni5.23wt%, Co1.32wt%, Mn48.67wt%, Cu0.61wt%, Fe 0%, Al0.26wt% and C17.89wt%. Waste lithium battery powder and sodium sulfate are mixed according to a molar ratio nLi:nNa2SO4Mixing and ball milling for 2h in a ratio of 1:1 to obtain a mixture.
(2) And (2) placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in an electric furnace, and reducing and sodium-treating for roasting for 4 hours at 700 ℃ to obtain roasted sand.
(3) And (3) leaching the calcine obtained in the step (2) by pure water, reacting for 3 hours at 80 ℃ according to the liquid-solid ratio of 6:1 to obtain a lithium-containing leaching solution and conversion slag, wherein the lithium-containing leaching solution can be used for preparing lithium salt products such as lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
(4) Reacting the conversion slag for 2 hours according to the liquid-solid ratio of 6:1, the temperature of 70 ℃ and the sulfuric acid concentration of 2mol/L, filtering to obtain leachate containing nickel, cobalt and manganese, and preparing the battery-grade nickel-cobalt-manganese sulfate through the working procedures of extraction, purification and the like.
Detecting the content of each element in the obtained leachate, and calculating that the leaching rate of Li in the roasting water leaching process reaches 93.43%, the leaching rates of Ni, Co and Mn are all lower than 0.4%, and the contents of other impurity ions are all lower than 0.9 mg/L; the leaching rates of Ni, Co and Mn in the acid leaching process of the conversion slag are respectively 99.79%, 99.61% and 99.89%.
Example 4
The embodiment provides a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of reduced sodium roasting, which comprises the following steps:
(1) waste lithium cobalt oxide battery powder is used as a raw material, and the main components of the waste lithium cobalt oxide battery powder are Li5.9wt% and Co32.7 wt%, Cu0.2wt%, Fe0.01wt%, Al0.66wt%, and C38.4wt%. Waste lithium battery powder and sodium sulfate are mixed according to a molar ratio nLi:nNa2SO4Mixing and ball milling for 1.5h at the ratio of 1:0.9 to obtain a mixture.
(2) And (3) placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in an electric furnace, and carrying out reduction sodium salt roasting for 1h at 850 ℃ to obtain roasted sand.
(3) And (3) carrying out water leaching on the calcine obtained in the step (2), reacting for 1.5h at 60 ℃ according to the liquid-solid ratio of 7:1 to obtain a lithium-containing leaching solution and conversion slag, wherein the lithium-containing leaching solution can be used for preparing lithium salt products such as lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
(4) Reacting the conversion slag for 2 hours according to the liquid-solid ratio of 8:1, the temperature of 75 ℃ and the sulfuric acid concentration of 2mol/L, and filtering to obtain a leaching solution containing cobalt.
Detecting the content of each element in the obtained leachate, and calculating that the Li leaching rate in the roasting water leaching process reaches 94.57%, the Co leaching rate is lower than 0.5%, and the content of other impurity ions is less than 0.8 mg/L; the Co leaching rate in the acid leaching process of the conversion slag is 99.78 percent.
Example 5
The embodiment provides a method for selectively extracting valuable metals from waste lithium ion battery powder based on phase conversion of reduced sodium roasting, which comprises the following steps:
(1) the waste lithium cobaltate and lithium manganate mixed battery powder is used as a raw material, and the main components of the mixed battery powder are controlled to be Li6.87wt%, Co35.05wt%, Mn31.62wt%, Cu0.92wt%, Fe0.23wt% and Al0.32wt%. Waste lithium battery powder and sodium sulfate are mixed according to a molar ratio (Li: Na)2SO4) Mixing and ball milling for 1h at a ratio of 1:1.1 to obtain a mixture.
(2) And (2) placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in an electric furnace, and reducing and sodium-treating for roasting for 2 hours at 750 ℃ to obtain roasted sand.
(3) And (3) soaking the roasted product obtained in the step (2) in water, reacting for 2 hours at 85 ℃ according to the liquid-solid ratio of 5:1 to obtain a lithium-containing leaching solution and conversion slag, wherein the lithium-containing leaching solution can be used for preparing lithium salt products such as lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
(4) Reacting the conversion slag for 2 hours according to the liquid-solid ratio of 5:1, the temperature of 80 ℃ and the sulfuric acid concentration of 3mol/L, and filtering to obtain a leaching solution containing cobalt and manganese.
Detecting the content of each element in the obtained leachate, and calculating that the leaching rate of Li in the roasting water leaching process reaches 93.85 percent, the leaching rates of Co and Mn are lower than 0.5 percent, and the contents of other impurity ions are less than 0.9 mg/L; the leaching rates of Co and Mn in the acid leaching process of the conversion slag are respectively 99.85 percent and 99.81 percent.
The method can synergistically utilize the anhydrous sodium sulphate produced by the lithium salt preparation and ternary precursor synthesis system of the lithium battery material enterprise, and has the advantages of simple process, low production cost, high recovery rate of valuable metals and the like. Lithium is extracted from battery powder and forms water-soluble lithium sulfate by reducing sodium roasting, and preferential selective extraction of lithium can be realized by adopting pure water leaching; meanwhile, valuable metal phases such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and the like are converted from high-valence oxides into low-valence oxides easy to be subjected to acid leaching in a reducing atmosphere, and favorable conditions are created for recovering nickel, cobalt and manganese through subsequent wet leaching.
The above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and do not limit the scope of the present invention, and various modifications and improvements of the technical solutions of the present invention can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the technical solutions of the present invention are within the scope of the present invention defined by the claims.