Background
With the rapid development of modern technology, the pollution problem of social energy and environment ecology becomes more and more prominent, and the pollution problem of various waste batteries to the environment and the ecology becomes the focus of social attention. The nickel cobalt lithium manganate ion battery is widely applied to power batteries and energy storage batteries due to the characteristics of high capacity, stable cycle performance, high working platform voltage and the like, and the requirements of the power batteries and the energy storage batteries on battery materials are generally greater than those of conventional small batteries. Therefore, a large amount of waste lithium ion batteries are scrapped in the future 3-5 years, and the recycling of the waste lithium ion batteries has high social value.
However, the waste lithium ion battery still has a considerable amount of voltage, and the residual voltage is reduced to within the safe range by performing discharge operation to ensure the safety of personnel and equipment, the recovery focus of the waste lithium ion battery is mainly focused on the recovery of the rear-stage product, the attention on the discharge treatment of the front stage is low, 5-10% NaCl solution is generally adopted for performing discharge operation, for example, in the 'high-efficiency recovery and separation process based on the lithium ion battery in the waste mobile phone' published by Chinese patent CN 106558739A, the discharge operation is performed before the battery is broken and disassembled, 10% NaCl salt solution is used for soaking for 48h until the residual voltage of the battery reaches the requirement of safe disassembly, 5-10% NaCl salt solution is adopted for performing battery discharge operation to ensure that the residual voltage of the waste battery reaches the requirement of safe disassembly, but the discharge rate is low, the residual voltage is generally soaked for more than 24h to be below 1V, chloride ions which are difficult to remove are introduced into the battery to enter the subsequent impurity removal purification and product recovery stage, and the influence is caused by using OH 633/1 h of NaOH solution before the breaking and OH 633/2 h of the lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide battery is performed at room temperature, for the battery, for example, CN 104538695A-In aqueous solution to Cl-More difficult discharge adopts the NaOH solution and will reduce the discharge rate and the discharge effect of battery certainly, and NaOH can cause the corruption to the aluminum hull and lead to revealing of electrolyte to pollute quality of water when handling laminate polymer battery.
In summary, in the conventional lithium ion recovery discharge process, the discharge time is long (generally, more than 24 hours), the discharge effect is not ideal, the discharge can only be about 0.7V, and the battery pack is easily corroded in the treatment process, so that the highly toxic electrolyte is leaked into a discharge system, which is very harmful to personnel and environment safety.
In addition, the existing wastewater contains more negative divalent sulfur, for example, hydrogen sulfide belongs to a highly toxic substance, and the industrial wastewater, especially the wastewater generated by the paper industry, contains higher concentration of hydrogen sulfide, which brings great harm to the ecological environment and human health if not treated. The method for treating hydrogen sulfide in wastewater generally comprises a closed collection treatment method, a physical adsorption method, an oxidation method, a biological method and the like, and the methods have the problems of complicated operation, low recovery efficiency and the like and are easy to cause secondary pollution.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problems of long discharge time, unsatisfactory discharge effect, sulfur pollution of industrial wastewater and the like of the conventional discharge method for recycling the lithium ion battery, the invention innovatively provides a brand-new combined treatment idea, and low-price sulfur in the industrial wastewater is removed on the premise of full discharge.
A combined treatment method for waste battery discharge and sulfur-containing wastewater desulfurization comprises placing a battery pack of a waste lithium ion battery or a battery monomer obtained by disassembly in sulfur-containing wastewater for discharge; separating to obtain a discharged battery pack or battery monomer and the effluent after desulfurization treatment;
the sulfur-containing wastewater contains H2S、HS-、S2-At least one of (1).
According to research, the invention discovers that the discharge is carried out in the sulfur-containing wastewater, and the discharge of the residual electric quantity of the waste lithium ion battery is realized by an oxidation-reduction method. The method can realize high-efficiency discharge, and researches show that the method not only obviously shortens the discharge time, but also is beneficial to achieving complete discharge (discharge to 0V), and has obvious advantages compared with the existing method which can only achieve the discharge effect of 0.7V. The method of the invention can not corrode the battery pack (or single battery) device, can not cause leakage of highly toxic electrolyte (such as methyl carboxylate) in the discharging process, and can not cause adverse effects on personnel and environment. In addition, the method is a brand-new idea for removing the sulfur-containing wastewater, and harmful sulfur components in the wastewater are removed by utilizing the residual electricity of the waste batteries. The method realizes the combined treatment of the waste water and the waste battery for the first time.
Preferably, the sulfur-containing wastewater is pretreated by the following steps before being used for discharging:
carrying out first solid-liquid separation on sulfur-containing wastewater to be treated to obtain first filtrate; adding an adsorbent into the first filtrate, performing second solid-liquid separation after adsorption to obtain a second filtrate, and taking the second filtrate as the medium for discharging the sulfur-containing wastewater.
Preferably, the adsorbent is one or more of activated carbon, polyacrylamide, wheat germ powder and carbon molecular sieve.
It has been found that controlling the concentration of low-valent sulfur (negative divalent sulfur) in a suitable solution helps to further increase the discharge efficiency and further improve the discharge effect.
Preferably, the concentration of the negative divalent total sulfur in the sulfur-containing wastewater is not less than 5 wt%; preferably 5 to 20 wt%. At this preferred concentration, discharge to 0V is possible, with a shorter time to discharge to 0V. In addition, the treatment of the high-concentration sulfur-containing wastewater can be realized.
The inventor also finds that the discharging effect can be further improved, the discharging time can be shortened, and the discharging effect can be improved by controlling the pH value in the discharging process, the temperature in the discharging process, adding a conductive material in the sulfur-containing wastewater and the like in the discharging process.
Preferably, the pH value of the sulfur waste water is 1-10.5.
Further preferably, the pH of the sulfur waste water is 1 to 6. The sulfur-containing wastewater is acidic, the negative divalent sulfur in the system mainly exists in the form of H2S, the H2S in the wastewater is removed by the combined treatment method, and in addition, the full discharge of waste batteries is realized.
Preferably, the sulfur-containing wastewater contains H2S, and after discharge, H2 and sulfur are collected.
Further preferably, the pH value of the sulfur waste water is 8-10.5. The sulfur-containing wastewater is alkaline, and the negative divalent sulfur in the system mainly comprises HS-、S2-Exist in the form of (1). Research shows that the discharge effect and the wastewater desulfurization effect are better under the alkaline condition, the discharge in the treatment process is more thorough, and H2S is not generated in the treatment process.
Preferably, theContaining HS in the sulfur-containing wastewater-、S2-After the discharge, sulfur was also collected.
Preferably, in the discharging process, the temperature of the sulfur-containing wastewater is controlled to be 25-35 ℃; preferably 25-30 ℃. The temperature of the sulfur-containing wastewater is also the temperature of the discharging process. Controlling at the preferred discharge temperature can further improve the discharge efficiency, further improve the discharge effect, and also contribute to improving the desulfurization effect.
Through adding conductive material in the sulphur-containing waste water of discharge process, can further improve the effect of discharging, promote discharge efficiency.
Preferably, the conductive material is at least one of graphite, graphite oxide and conductive polyaniline.
Preferably, in the sulfur-containing wastewater, the volume fraction of the conductive material is 5-20%.
Preferably, the waste lithium ion battery is one or more of a waste ternary power battery, a lithium cobaltate battery, a lithium manganate battery and a lithium iron phosphate battery.
Preferably, the residual voltage of the battery pack and the battery unit is not lower than 1V, and preferably 3.8V-3.85V.
The discharge time of the invention can be controlled according to the sulfur content of the actual wastewater, when the discharge capacity of the waste battery reaches 0V, the waste battery to be treated can be replaced, when the sulfur content in the wastewater reaches the discharge standard, the treated effluent is discharged, and the new sulfur-containing wastewater to be treated is replaced.
A preferable combined treatment method (a method for treating hydrogen sulfide in wastewater by gradient utilization of residual energy in waste lithium batteries) comprises the following steps:
1) carrying out primary filtration on the industrial hydrogen sulfide-containing wastewater to remove large-particle suspended matters with the particle size of more than 0.5mm to obtain primary filtrate;
2) adding an adsorbent into the primary filtrate, stirring, and carrying out solid-liquid separation to obtain a secondary filtrate;
3) pouring the secondary filtrate into a device filled with waste lithium batteries for discharge reaction, and then performing secondary filtration to respectively obtain discharged waste lithium batteries and elemental sulfur,
the device provided with the waste lithium battery is a closed container with a gas collecting device, and is also provided with a hydrogen sulfide concentration detector for detecting the concentration of H2S in water;
in the discharging process, hydrogen is obtained in the gas collecting device, wherein the waste lithium battery is sent to a battery recovery process;
4) measuring the concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the wastewater before and after treatment, wherein the concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the wastewater (the effluent after desulfurization treatment) after sufficient time reaction can meet the requirement of industrial wastewater discharge on the concentration of hydrogen sulfide; recycling the treated effluent which does not meet the discharge standard to the step 1) for recycling treatment.
The large-particle suspended matter in the step 1 means particles having a particle size of 0.5mm or more.
The adsorbent in the step 2 is one or more of activated carbon, polyacrylamide, wheat germ powder and a carbon molecular sieve.
The device in the step 3 is a closed system provided with a gas collecting device, and the gas purity is obtained by analyzing with a gas purity analyzer.
And (4) measuring the concentrations of the hydrogen sulfide before and after the treatment in the step (4) by using a hydrogen sulfide concentration detector, wherein the sufficient reaction time means that the time is more than 12 hours.
The method disclosed by the invention realizes hydrogen production and sulfur fixation of hydrogen sulfide in the wastewater by using simple chemical and electrochemical methods, realizes echelon utilization of the residual energy of the waste lithium battery, and greatly reduces the cost and has no secondary pollution compared with other methods for treating the hydrogen sulfide in the wastewater.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the invention utilizes the residual energy in the waste lithium battery to be applied to the treatment of negative divalent sulfur (such as hydrogen sulfide) in industrial wastewater to realize sulfur fixation, the hydrogen sulfide can also realize hydrogen production, the generated sulfur and the prepared hydrogen can be recycled, and a reliable path with environmental protection and low cost is provided for waste regeneration.
The reacted waste lithium battery has a thorough discharging effect and short discharging time; the treated wastewater is sent to a battery recovery process, discharge operation is not needed before disassembly, the concentration of the hydrogen sulfide in the treated industrial wastewater meets the discharge standard and can be used as industrial water again, and resources are recycled, so that the treatment cost is greatly reduced.