Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to overcome the defects and shortcomings in the background art, and provide a recovery product and a recovery method of waste lithium cobaltate batteries, which can efficiently recover the waste lithium cobaltate batteries in a large scale and remarkably improve the economic benefit of recovering the waste lithium cobaltate batteries.
In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme provided by the invention is as follows:
a recovered product of a waste lithium cobalt oxide battery is mainly prepared from 98.1-99.0 wt% of Co3O4And 1.0 wt% to 1.8wt% of LiXCoyO2Wherein x is more than or equal to 0.8 and less than or equal to 1.0, and y is more than or equal to 0.7 and less than or equal to 1.0.
The above recovered product preferably has a median particle diameter D50 of 2 to 18 μm and a specific surface area of 9 to 18m2/g。
As a general inventive concept, the present invention also provides a method for recovering waste lithium cobalt oxide batteries, comprising the following steps:
(1) pretreating the waste lithium cobaltate battery to obtain anode powder;
(2) dissolving and leaching the positive electrode powder obtained in the step (1) by using an acid leaching agent, stopping leaching when the leaching rate of Co reaches 10-40% and the leaching rate of Li reaches 88-99%, and filtering to obtain a filter cake and a filtrate;
(3) and (3) drying and calcining the filter cake obtained in the step (2) to obtain a ceramic-grade cobaltosic oxide recovery product.
The applicant of the invention finds that the leaching rates of Co and Li are improved along with the increase of the leaching time, and the leaching speed of Li at the early stage is obviously higher than that of Co through intensive research. Therefore, the invention monitors the change of the leaching rates of Li and Co in the leaching process, detects the concentrations of Li and Co in the leaching solution by adopting an interval sampling mode and calculates the leaching rates of the Li and Co, preferably samples every 5-10 min and carries out ICP test, and can also carry out adaptive adjustment on the interval time of sampling detection according to the actual requirement of the production scale. When the leaching rates of cobalt and lithium reach the target range, the leaching is immediately stopped and the next step is carried out.
According to the invention, the leaching rate of cobalt is controlled to be 10-40%, if the leaching rate of cobalt is lower than 10%, the leaching rate of lithium is relatively low, the obtained filter cake contains more Li impurities, and the content of Co in the recovered product can not reach the standard of ceramic-grade cobaltosic oxide; if the leaching rate of the cobalt is higher than 40%, the leaching rate of the cobalt indicates that the Co is dissolved more in the leaching process, the amount of the obtained solid after filtering is small, the economic benefit is poor, and along with the gradual increase of the leaching rate of the cobalt, the leaching rate of the lithium is high, the leaching speed is very slow, the lithium content in the filter cake is basically not changed, the cobalt content is gradually reduced, and the Co content in the recovered product cannot meet the requirement. Only when the leaching rate of the cobalt is controlled to be 10-40% and the leaching rate of the Li reaches 88-99%, the cobalt content of the recovered product can meet the requirement of ceramic-grade cobaltosic oxide, and better economic benefit can be obtained.
In the above recovery method, preferably, in the step (2), the acid leaching agent is one or a mixture of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and nitric acid, and the total concentration of acid in the acid leaching agent is 1.5-2.5 mol/L.
In the above recovery method, preferably, in the step (2), the leaching temperature is 60-90 ℃.
In the above recovery method, preferably, in the step (1), the pretreatment specifically comprises: discharging the waste lithium cobalt oxide battery in a salt solution, then disassembling to obtain a positive plate, soaking the positive plate in an alkali solution to remove aluminum foil, washing for multiple times, drying, calcining at 400-600 ℃ for 6-8 hours, grinding, and sieving to obtain positive powder.
In the above recovery method, preferably, the salt solution is one or more of sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride, and the alkali solution is a sodium hydroxide solution or a potassium hydroxide solution with a concentration of 2 to 4 mol/L.
In the above recovery method, preferably, in the step (3), the calcining temperature is 700 to 950 ℃, and the calcining time is 2 to 4 hours.
In the above recovery method, preferably, the calcination is carried out in an air atmosphere, and the air flow rate is 2 to 6m3/h。
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:
(1) the method for recycling the waste lithium cobaltate battery breaks through the conventional thought of recycling the waste lithium cobaltate battery in the prior art, namely, the higher leaching rate is not pursued in the acid leaching process, the leaching rate of Co and Li is controlled by controlling the concentration and the leaching temperature of acid and paying attention to the change of the leaching rate of Co and Li, when the leaching rate of Co reaches 10-40% and the leaching rate of Li reaches 88-99%, the leaching is immediately finished, and a recycled product is obtained by one-step sintering, and can be applied to the fields of coloring pigments, electronic element materials, bonding agents of hard alloy materials, catalysts, livestock nutritional agents and the like.
(2) The recovery method can prepare the ceramic-grade cobaltosic oxide material only by simple acid leaching and calcination, is simple and easy to operate, has low production cost, and can obtain excellent economic benefit after popularization and application.
(3) The content of cobaltosic oxide in the recovered product is more than 98.1 percent, the cobalt content can reach more than 72 percent, and the product meets the standard of ceramic-grade cobaltosic oxide.
(4) The median particle diameter D50 of the recovered product of the invention is 2-18 μm, and the specific surface area is 9-18m2The recovery product not only completely meets the ceramic grade requirement, but also is not easy to generate an incomplete crystal structure in the pigment in the reaction process, has better crystal integrity and excellent ultraviolet reflection performance, and the color of the produced cobalt blue pigment is more bright.
Detailed Description
In order to facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will be described more fully and in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments, but the scope of the invention is not limited to the specific embodiments below.
Unless otherwise defined, all terms of art used hereinafter have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
Unless otherwise specifically stated, various raw materials, reagents, instruments, equipment and the like used in the present invention are commercially available or can be prepared by existing methods.
Example 1:
the invention discloses a method for recovering waste lithium cobaltate batteries, which comprises the following steps:
(1) fully discharging a waste lithium cobalt oxide battery from a certain recycling enterprise of Dongguan city, Guangdong province in 1mol/L sodium chloride solution, disassembling to obtain a positive plate, placing the positive plate in 2mol/L sodium hydroxide solution to remove aluminum foil, washing for multiple times, drying, calcining for 6 hours at the calcining temperature of 400 ℃ through a muffle furnace, removing impurities such as carbon, PVDF and the like in the positive material, grinding, and sieving to obtain positive powder, wherein the element content is shown in Table 1;
TABLE 1 elemental composition content of cathode powder
(2) Weighing 200g of the positive electrode powder obtained in the step (1), placing the positive electrode powder into a beaker, and adding 1.5mol/L H with 30% excess according to the stoichiometric ratio of the positive electrode material to sulfuric acid reaction2SO4Heating to 60 ℃, monitoring the change of the leaching rate of cobalt and lithium, stopping leaching when the leaching rate of Co reaches 11.5% and the leaching rate of Li reaches 89%, leaching for 55min, and filtering to obtain a filter cake and a filtrate;
(3) drying the filter cake obtained by filtering in the step (2) in a vacuum drying oven at 70 ℃ for 24 hours, then placing the filter cake in a muffle furnace, and introducing the filter cake with the flow of 2m3And h, keeping the atmosphere in the furnace with air, heating to 700 ℃, calcining for 2h, and naturally cooling to room temperature to obtain a recovered product.
The XRD of the recovered product prepared in this example is shown in FIG. 1, and its cobalt content was 72.5 wt% by ICP test. XRD test results show that lithium cobaltate is subjected to acid leaching process of incomplete acid dissolution, cobalt and lithium leaching rates are strictly controlled, and then high-temperature calcination can convert lithium cobaltate with a layered structure into spinel-type Co3O4And the purity of the obtained product meets the standard of ceramic-grade cobaltosic oxide.
The recovered product prepared in this example was tested for composition, including 98.1 wt% Co3O4And 1.0 wt% Li0.8Co0.7O2. The recovered product had a particle diameter D50 of 9 μm and a specific surface area of 18m2The recovered product can be used as a raw material for producing the cobalt blue pigment, the specific surface area is large, and the color of the produced cobalt blue pigment is bright.
Example 2:
the invention discloses a method for recovering waste lithium cobaltate batteries, which comprises the following steps:
(1) taking the waste battery same as the waste battery in the embodiment 1, fully discharging in 2mol/L potassium chloride solution, disassembling to obtain a positive plate, then placing the positive plate in 2mol/L potassium hydroxide solution to remove aluminum foil, washing for multiple times, drying, calcining in a muffle furnace to 500 ℃, preserving heat for 6 hours, removing impurities such as carbon, PVDF and the like in a positive material, grinding, and sieving to obtain positive powder, wherein the element content is shown in Table 2;
TABLE 2 elemental composition content of positive electrode powder
(2) Weighing 200g of the positive electrode powder obtained in the step (1), placing the positive electrode powder into a beaker, and adding 2mol/L H with 30% excess according to the stoichiometric ratio of the positive electrode material to sulfuric acid reaction2SO4Heating to 80 ℃, monitoring the change of the leaching rate of cobalt and lithium, stopping leaching when the leaching rate of Co is 38% and the leaching rate of Li is 98%, taking 70min for leaching, and filtering to obtain a filter cake and filtrate;
(3) putting the filter cake obtained by filtering in the step (2) into a vacuum drying oven, drying for 24 hours at 70 ℃, and then introducing the filter cake into a muffle furnace at the flow rate of 3m3And h, heating to 800 ℃ in air, calcining for 3h at the temperature, and naturally cooling to room temperature to obtain a recovered product.
The SEM of the recovered product obtained in this example is shown in FIG. 2, and it was found that the cobalt content was 73.0 wt% by ICP.
The recovered product prepared in this example was tested for its composition,comprising 98.5 wt% Co3O4And 1.1 wt% Li0.9CoO2The recovered product had a particle size D50 of 9 μm and a specific surface area of 18m2/g。
Example 3:
the invention discloses a method for recovering waste lithium cobaltate batteries, which comprises the following steps:
(1) taking the same waste battery sample as in example 1, fully discharging in 2mol/L potassium chloride solution, then disassembling to obtain a positive plate, then placing the positive plate in 2mol/L potassium hydroxide solution to remove aluminum foil, washing for multiple times, drying, then placing in a muffle furnace, calcining for 8 hours at 500 ℃, removing impurities such as carbon, PVDF and the like in the positive material, grinding, and sieving to obtain positive powder, wherein the element content is shown in Table 3;
TABLE 3 elemental composition content of cathode powder
(2) Weighing 200g of the positive electrode powder obtained in the step (1), placing the positive electrode powder in a beaker, and adding 1.75mol/L HNO with 30% excess according to the stoichiometric ratio of the positive electrode material to the acid reaction3Heating to 70 ℃, monitoring the change of the leaching rate of cobalt and lithium, stopping leaching when the leaching rate of Co is 24% and the leaching rate of Li is 95%, taking 65min for leaching, and filtering to obtain a filter cake and a filtrate;
(3) putting the filter cake obtained in the step (2) into a vacuum drying oven, drying for 24 hours at 70 ℃, then putting into a muffle furnace, and introducing the filter cake with the flow of 3m3And h, heating to 800 ℃ in air, calcining for 3h at the temperature, and naturally cooling to room temperature to obtain a recovered product.
The recovered product obtained in this example was found to have a cobalt content of 72.9% by weight by ICP analysis and a purity in accordance with the standard for ceramic grade tricobalt tetroxide.
The recovered product obtained in this example comprised 98.4 wt% Co3O4And 1.2 wt% LiCo0.8O2The recovered product had a particle diameter D50 of 10 μm and a specific surface area of 15m2/g。
Example 4:
the invention discloses a method for recovering waste lithium cobaltate batteries, which comprises the following steps:
(1) taking the waste battery same as the waste battery in the embodiment 1, fully discharging in 2mol/L potassium chloride solution, then disassembling to obtain a positive plate, then placing the positive plate in 2mol/L potassium hydroxide solution to remove aluminum foil, washing for multiple times, drying, then placing in a muffle furnace, calcining at 500 ℃, removing impurities such as carbon, PVDF and the like in a positive material, grinding, and sieving to obtain positive powder, wherein the element content is shown in Table 4;
TABLE 4 elemental composition content of cathode powder
(2) Weighing 200g of the positive electrode powder obtained in the step (1), placing the positive electrode powder in a beaker, and adding 2mol/L HNO with 30% excess according to the stoichiometric ratio3Heating to 90 ℃, stopping leaching when the Co leaching rate is 15% and the Li leaching rate is 93%, wherein the leaching time is 50min, and filtering to obtain a filter cake and a filtrate;
(3) putting the filter cake obtained in the step (2) into a vacuum drying oven, drying for 24 hours at 70 ℃, then putting into a muffle furnace, and introducing the filter cake with the flow of 3m3And h, heating to 800 ℃ in air, calcining for 3h at the temperature, and naturally cooling to room temperature to obtain a recovered product.
The recovered product obtained in this example had a cobalt content of 72.8% by weight as measured by ICP, and the purity of the obtained product was in accordance with the standard for ceramic grade tricobalt tetroxide.
The recovered product obtained in this example comprised 98.5 wt% Co3O4And 1.0 wt% LiCo0.7O2The recovered product had a particle size D50 of 11 μm and a specific surface area of 17m2/g。