Detailed Description
The technical solutions of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the following embodiments of the present invention, and it should be understood that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without inventive effort based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.
Example 1
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
Soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a dimethyl carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after performing ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery;
(2) cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 100mbar and the temperature to be 30 ℃ to carry out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the dimethyl carbonate solvent used in the working procedure (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 30 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating organic phases one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the number of tower plates of the rectifying tower is 40, the reaction temperature is 150 ℃, the operating pressure is 20KPa, the reflux ratio is 5, and recovering an organic solvent and an additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
Adding the lithium salt precipitate obtained in the step (3) into a calcium hydroxide solution, filtering to obtain a filtrate I, reacting the aqueous phase with the calcium hydroxide solution in the step (4), filtering to obtain a filtrate II, putting the obtained filtrates I and II into a crystallization kettle, adding a sodium carbonate solution into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to generate lithium carbonate.
Example 2
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
Soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a methyl ethyl carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after performing ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery;
(2) cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 500mbar and the temperature to be 100 ℃, carrying out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the methyl ethyl carbonate solvent used in the working procedure (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 100 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating organic phases one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the number of tower plates of the rectifying tower is 80, the reaction temperature is 250 ℃, the operating pressure is 80KPa, the reflux ratio is 60, and recovering an organic solvent and an additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
And (3) adding the lithium salt precipitate in the step (3) into a calcium hydroxide solution, filtering to obtain a filtrate I, reacting the aqueous phase with the calcium hydroxide solution in the step (4), filtering to obtain a filtrate II, putting the obtained filtrates I and II into a crystallization kettle, adding a potassium carbonate solution into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to generate lithium carbonate.
Example 3
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
Soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a diethyl carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after performing ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery;
(2) cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 200mbar and the temperature to be 50 ℃ to carry out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the diethyl carbonate solvent used in the working procedure (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 50 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating organic phases one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the number of tower plates of the rectifying tower is 5, the reaction temperature is 50 ℃, the operating pressure is 10KPa, the reflux ratio is 2, and recovering an organic solvent and an additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
And (3) adding the lithium salt precipitate in the step (3) into a calcium hydroxide solution, filtering to obtain a filtrate I, reacting the aqueous phase with the calcium hydroxide solution in the step (4), filtering to obtain a filtrate II, putting the obtained filtrates I and II into a crystallization kettle, adding an ammonium carbonate solution into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to generate lithium carbonate.
Example 4
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
The method comprises the steps of soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a propylene carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after carrying out ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery.
(2) Cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 400mbar and the temperature to be 80 ℃ to carry out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the propylene carbonate solvent used in the working procedure (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 60 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating organic phases one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the number of tower plates of the rectifying tower is 20, the reaction temperature is 100 ℃, the operating pressure is 30KPa, the reflux ratio is 20, and recovering an organic solvent and an additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
And (3) adding the lithium salt precipitate in the step (3) into a calcium hydroxide solution, filtering to obtain a filtrate I, reacting the aqueous phase with the calcium hydroxide solution in the step (4), filtering to obtain a filtrate II, putting the obtained filtrates I and II into a crystallization kettle, introducing carbon dioxide gas into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to generate lithium carbonate.
Example 5
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
Soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a methyl ethyl carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after performing ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery;
(2) cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 300mbar and the temperature to be 60 ℃ to carry out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the methyl ethyl carbonate solvent used in the working procedure (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 50 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating organic phases one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the number of tower plates of the rectifying tower is 30, the reaction temperature is 150 ℃, the operating pressure is 40KPa, the reflux ratio is 30, and recovering an organic solvent and an additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
And (3) adding acetic acid into the lithium salt precipitate in the step (3) to form a filtrate, separating and removing the precipitate formed in the step (4) to obtain a filtrate, putting the obtained filtrate into a crystallization kettle, introducing carbon dioxide gas into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to obtain the lithium carbonate.
Example 6
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
Soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a dimethyl carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after performing ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery;
(2) cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 400mbar and the temperature to be 80 ℃ to carry out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the dimethyl carbonate solvent used in the working procedure (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 70 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating organic phases one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the number of tower plates of the rectifying tower is 40, the reaction temperature is 180 ℃, the operating pressure is 50KPa, the reflux ratio is 40, and recovering an organic solvent and an additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
And (3) adding the lithium salt precipitate in the step (3) into a calcium hydroxide solution, filtering to obtain a filtrate I, reacting the aqueous phase with the calcium hydroxide solution in the step (4), filtering to obtain a filtrate II, putting the obtained filtrates I and II into a crystallization kettle, adding a potassium carbonate solution into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to generate lithium carbonate.
Example 7
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
Soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a propylene carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after performing ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery;
(2) cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 200mbar and the temperature to be 50 ℃ to carry out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the propylene carbonate solvent used in the working procedure (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding excessive water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 80 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating the organic phase one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the tower plate number of the rectifying tower is 80, the reaction temperature is 220 ℃, the operating pressure is 60KPa, the reflux ratio is 50, and recovering the organic solvent and the additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
Adding the lithium salt precipitate obtained in the step (3) into a calcium hydroxide solution, filtering to obtain a filtrate I, reacting the aqueous phase with the calcium hydroxide solution in the step (4), filtering to obtain a filtrate II, putting the obtained filtrates I and II into a crystallization kettle, adding a sodium carbonate solution into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to generate lithium carbonate.
Example 8
A method for fully recovering electrolyte of a waste lithium ion battery comprises the following steps:
(1) cleaning process
Soaking a waste lithium ion battery containing waste electrolyte in a diethyl carbonate solvent, and extracting the electrolyte after performing ultrasonic treatment, stirring and filtering on the waste lithium ion battery;
(2) cleaning solvent recovery step
Controlling the vacuum degree to be 100mbar and the temperature to be 40 ℃ to carry out reduced pressure distillation, recovering the diethyl carbonate solvent used in the step (1), and collecting the electrolyte;
(3) organic solvent and additive recovery step
Adding water into the collected electrolyte in the step (2), heating at 40 ℃, filtering to obtain lithium salt precipitate and filtrate, introducing the filtrate into an extraction tower, purifying and separating organic phases one by one through a rectifying tower, wherein the number of tower plates of the rectifying tower is 50, the reaction temperature is 240 ℃, the operating pressure is 60KPa, the reflux ratio is 15, and recovering an organic solvent and an additive;
(4) recovery process of fluorine and phosphorus in electrolyte
Absorbing the volatile gas generated by heating in the step (3) by using a calcium hydroxide solution, and absorbing the aqueous phase in the step (3) by using the calcium hydroxide solution to generate calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate and then recovering the calcium fluoride and the calcium phosphate;
(5) lithium salt recovery step
And (3) adding the lithium salt precipitate in the step (3) into a calcium hydroxide solution, filtering to obtain a filtrate I, reacting the aqueous phase with the calcium hydroxide solution in the step (4), filtering to obtain a filtrate II, putting the obtained filtrates I and II into a crystallization kettle, introducing carbon dioxide gas into the crystallization kettle, heating, concentrating and crystallizing to generate lithium carbonate.
TABLE 1 recovery of various components of spent electrolyte
Verification of effects
Table 1 shows the recovery rates of the components of the spent electrolyte in the examples.
Fig. 1 is a process flow diagram for the total recovery of the electrolyte of the waste lithium ion battery, and the effective recovery of lithium salt, organic solvent, additive, fluorine and phosphorus can be clearly seen from the diagram.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.