Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for producing sodium tungstate solution by utilizing a short-process technology of tungsten-containing waste, and reduce the impurity content of the sodium tungstate solution.
In order to achieve the aim, the invention provides a method for preparing sodium tungstate solution by utilizing tungsten-containing waste materials in a short process, which comprises the following steps: s1, uniformly mixing the tungsten-containing waste with alkali, and then roasting to obtain a roasted product; s2, carrying out water leaching on the roasted product to obtain a solid-liquid mixture, and filtering the solid-liquid mixture to obtain filter residue and leachate; s3, adjusting the pH value of the leachate to 9-11 to obtain mixed slurry, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution.
Further, the step S1 includes: fully mixing tungsten-containing waste with alkali to obtain a mixture; and roasting the mixture at 500-1200 ℃ for 0.5-3 hours to obtain a roasted product.
Further, the tungsten-containing waste material obtained in step S1 is derived from a flooring material, a dust collecting material, a grinding material, and a waste material generated in the production process of cemented carbide, a powdery tungsten-containing waste material such as a flooring material, a dust collecting material, and a waste material generated in the production process of tungsten carbide powder and tungsten powder, and further includes a massive tungsten-containing waste material such as waste tungsten steel, waste drill bits, waste cutters, waste molds, and waste tungsten rods. The tungsten-containing waste material mainly comprises the following components: the mass content of tungsten is 40-95%, the mass content of cobalt is 2-20%, and simultaneously, the tungsten powder also contains a small amount of other impurity elements such as Fe, Cu, C, Cr, SiO2, Ni, V and the like.
Further, the alkali in the step S1 is a solid alkali and/or a liquid alkali, and is preferably at least one selected from sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, and sodium bicarbonate.
Further, the mass of the alkali in the step S1 is 1 to 4 times of the mass of the tungsten-containing waste. When the alkali is sodium hydroxide, the mass ratio of the tungsten waste to the sodium hydroxide is 1: (1-3); when the alkali is sodium carbonate, the mass ratio of the tungsten waste to the sodium carbonate is 1: (1-3); when the alkali is sodium carbonate, the mass ratio of the tungsten waste to the sodium carbonate is 1: (2-4); when the alkali is a mixture of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, the mass ratio of the tungsten waste to the sodium hydroxide to the sodium carbonate to the sodium bicarbonate is 1: (0.5-1.5): (0.5-2): (0.5 to 1.5).
Further, the roasting temperature is 500-1200 ℃, the heating rate is 2.5-10 ℃/min, and the heat preservation time is 0.5-3 hours.
Further, the step S2 includes: after the temperature of the roasted material melt is reduced to room temperature, adding water into the roasted material to soak for 2-6 hours to form slurry, wherein the weight ratio of the water to the roasted material in the slurry is 2-8: 1; and stirring the slurry to carry out water leaching, wherein the water leaching process lasts for 0.5-2 h, the temperature of the slurry is maintained at 20-80 ℃, water leaching is carried out to obtain a solid-liquid mixture, and the solid-liquid mixture is filtered to obtain filter residue and a leaching solution.
Further, in the step S3, inorganic acid or water is added to adjust the pH of the leachate to 9-11, so as to obtain a mixed slurry, and the mixed slurry is filtered to obtain a sodium tungstate solution.
Further, the inorganic acid is one or more of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid.
Further, the step S3 includes heating the leachate to 60 to 100 ℃ and maintaining the temperature for 10 to 30 minutes before filtering the mixed slurry.
Further, the mixed slurry is filtered to obtain a sodium tungstate solution.
Further, evaporating and crystallizing the sodium tungstate solution to obtain a sodium tungstate product, or extracting or carrying out an ion exchange process on the sodium tungstate solution to obtain an ammonium tungstate solution, and evaporating and crystallizing the ammonium tungstate solution to obtain an APT product.
The invention also protects the product obtained by the treatment method of the tungsten-containing waste material, which comprises at least one of sodium tungstate solution, sodium tungstate product and APT product.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
the treatment method is suitable for common tungsten-containing waste materials, and comprises a floor material, a dust collecting material, a grinding material and a waste material which are generated in the production process of hard alloy, a floor material, a dust collecting material and a waste material which are generated in the production process of tungsten carbide powder and tungsten powder, and also comprises blocky hard waste materials such as waste tungsten steel, waste drill bits, waste cutters, waste molds, waste tungsten rods and the like. Furthermore, the first step in the technical scheme involved in CN109022763A includes a granulation pretreatment process of the tungsten-containing waste, and after intensive research, the inventors of the present invention found that the blocky tungsten-containing waste such as waste tools, waste tungsten steels, waste drill bits, waste molds, waste tungsten rods, etc. is roasted at a high temperature of 1000 ℃, the blocky tungsten-containing waste is gradually cracked from the surface to the center direction along with the prolongation of the roasting time, and the high-temperature alkali-molten state of alkali roasting aggravates the erosion cracking speed of the blocky tungsten-containing waste, so that the present invention can directly treat the powdery tungsten-containing waste and the blocky tungsten-containing waste, and even if the blocky waste hard alloy material is treated, the pretreatment processes such as crushing, granulation, etc. are not needed, the process flow is shortened, and the production cost is saved; furthermore, the invention directly adopts the common alkali as the roasting additive, thereby not only avoiding the problem of gas pollution in the sodium sulfate melting process, but also not needing to add sodium peroxide, sodium nitrate, and oxidants such as sodium percarbonate and the like described in CN109022763A, and reducing the medicament cost; furthermore, the method effectively removes Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO contained in the crude sodium tungstate solution by adjusting the dosage and the type of alkali, the roasting parameters and the pH value of the water leaching solution 2And the quality of the sodium tungstate solution is improved by waiting for impurities, and tungsten content in the obtained solution is detected and analyzedThe recovery rate of (D) is over 98%. In a word, the tungsten-containing waste material treatment method has the advantages of short process flow, high metal recovery rate and good raw material adaptability, and is an environment-friendly treatment method.
Detailed Description
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
In order to solve the technical problems of long process flow, complex separation method, low recovery rate, easy generation of gas pollution and the like in the process of producing sodium tungstate solution by using tungsten-containing waste grinding materials in the prior art, the invention provides a method for producing sodium tungstate solution by using tungsten-containing waste materials, and according to an embodiment of the invention, with reference to the attached drawing 1, the method comprises the following steps:
S1: the tungsten-containing waste is uniformly mixed with alkali and then roasted to obtain a roasted product.
In the embodiment of the invention, in order to ensure that tungsten in the tungsten-containing waste material is fully reacted with alkali to generate sodium tungstate to be separated, the leaching rate of tungsten is greatly improved, so that the total yield of tungsten is improved, and for the powdery tungsten-containing waste material, the mass of alkali in the step S1 is preferably 1-2 times of that of the tungsten-containing waste material; in order to increase the chance of contact between the alkali and the bulk tungsten-containing waste material due to the chemical reaction, the amount of the alkali used is increased, and the mass of the alkali in step S1 is preferably 2 to 4 times the mass of the bulk tungsten-containing waste material. In addition, while ensuring the efficient alkali-melting conversion effect of the tungsten componentOn the premise that the lower the usage amount of the alkali, the better, the consumption cost of the alkali can be reduced, and the Cr and SiO in the subsequent water leaching solution can be reduced2The content of (a).
In the embodiment of the present invention, the specific values of the baking temperature and the baking time are not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can optionally select the values according to actual needs, and as a preferred scheme, the baking temperature is 500 to 1200 ℃, and the baking time is 0.5 to 3 hours. In the roasting temperature and roasting time range, the oxidation roasting and alkali conversion of tungsten components in the tungsten-containing waste are more thorough. It should be added that, raising the roasting temperature and prolonging the roasting time can both improve the copper and iron removal effect, i.e. reduce the contents of Cu and Fe in the subsequent water leaching solution. In addition, it should be noted that the roasting system contains oxidizing gas, and the roasting is performed in air, which is known to those skilled in the art and will not be described herein. It should be added that the alkali fusion roasting-water leaching method of adding oxidants such as sodium peroxide, sodium nitrate, sodium percarbonate and the like is adopted, so that more Cr components in the tungsten-containing waste material easily enter the water leaching solution.
S2: and (3) carrying out water leaching on the roasted product to obtain a solid-liquid mixture, and filtering the solid-liquid mixture to obtain filter residue and a leaching solution.
In the embodiment, the weight ratio of water to the roasted material is controlled within the range of 2-8: 1, and the roasted material is soaked for 2-6 hours, so that the problem that the roasted material melt is bonded with a crucible can be effectively solved, soluble substances in the roasted material can be fully dissolved in water, sodium tungstate in the roasted material is further completely dissolved out, and the leaching rate of the sodium tungstate is further ensured. Meanwhile, the roasted material obtained after roasting is higher in temperature and higher in activity, so that the leaching effect is better when the roasting is carried out in water, in the embodiment, the temperature of the slurry is maintained between 20 ℃ and 80 ℃ in the water leaching process, and the water leaching time is 0.5-2 h. The apparatus for filtering the solid-liquid mixture is not particularly limited as long as it can separate the solid phase from the liquid phase.
S3: and adjusting the pH value of the leaching solution to 9-11 to obtain mixed slurry, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution.
After the leachate is obtained, in order to improve the purity of the sodium tungstate, the pH of the leachate is preferably adjusted to 9 to 11 by using a mineral acid in step S3. Under the pH value, trace impurities such as chromium, arsenic and silicon are efficiently removed in a positive and negative charge adsorption synergistic coprecipitation mode, the precipitates are further filtered, impurities such as chromium, arsenic and silicon in the sodium tungstate solution can be effectively removed, the purity of the sodium tungstate solution is improved, and the subsequent preparation of qualified tungsten products is facilitated. Inorganic acids useful in the present invention include, but are not limited to, one or more of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid.
In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the step S3 includes heating the leachate to 60 to 90 ℃ and maintaining the temperature for 10 to 30 minutes before filtering the mixed slurry. The heating aims to ensure that the chromium, arsenic, silicon and other ions are completely co-precipitated, and the precipitated particles are large and convenient to filter, so that the leachate is purified.
The purified sodium tungstate solution can be directly evaporated, concentrated and crystallized to obtain a high-purity sodium tungstate product, or an ion exchange-evaporative crystallization process shown in figure 2 can be adopted to produce a high-quality ammonium paratungstate product, or the sodium tungstate solution is subjected to an extraction-evaporative crystallization process to obtain an ammonium paratungstate product.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail below. While the following describes preferred embodiments of the present invention, it should be understood that the present invention may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth herein.
Example 1: the method for producing the sodium tungstate solution by using the tungsten-containing waste comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: taking 30g of blocky tungsten-containing waste, adding sodium hydroxide with the mass ratio of 2 times into the tungsten-containing waste, and uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture; roasting the mixture at the roasting temperature of 900 ℃ for 1h to obtain a roasted material;
Step two: after the roasted material is cooled to room temperature, adding water with the weight ratio of 6:1 to the roasted material to soak for 3 hours to obtain slurry, stirring the slurry to soak for 1 hour at the water soaking temperature of 60 ℃, and filtering to obtain filter residue and leachate after water soaking;
step three: and (4) adding hydrochloric acid into the leachate obtained in the step two to adjust the pH value of the leachate to 10, stirring, heating to 80 ℃, preserving heat for 10 minutes, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution. The recovery rate of tungsten is up to 98.6%, Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO2The leaching rates of (A) were 1.2%, 0.8%, 0.6%, and 1.3%, respectively.
Example 2: the method for producing the sodium tungstate solution by using the tungsten-containing waste comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: taking 40g of powdery tungsten-containing waste, adding sodium bicarbonate with the mass ratio of 1.5 times into the tungsten-containing waste, and uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture; roasting the mixture at the roasting temperature of 600 ℃ for 2h to obtain a roasted material;
step two: after the roasted material is cooled to room temperature, adding water with the weight ratio of 4:1 to the roasted material for soaking for 4 hours to obtain slurry, stirring the slurry for soaking for 1 hour at the water soaking temperature of 80 ℃, and filtering to obtain filter residue and leachate;
step three: and (4) adding sulfuric acid into the leachate obtained in the step two to adjust the pH value of the leachate to 9, stirring, heating to 90 ℃, preserving heat for 20 minutes, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution. The recovery rate of tungsten reaches 99.2 percent, and Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO 2The leaching rates of (A) were 1.1%, 0.7%, 0.5%, and 0.9%, respectively.
Example 3: the method for producing the sodium tungstate solution by using the tungsten-containing waste comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: taking 50g of powdery tungsten-containing waste, adding 2 times of sodium carbonate into the tungsten-containing waste, and uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture; roasting the mixture at 800 ℃ for 1h to obtain a roasted material;
step two: after the roasted material is cooled to room temperature, adding water with the weight ratio of 2:1 to the roasted material to soak for 6 hours to obtain slurry, stirring the slurry to soak for 2 hours at the water soaking temperature of 60 ℃, and filtering to obtain filter residue and leachate after water soaking;
step three: adding phosphoric acid into the leachate obtained in the second step to adjust the pH value of the leachateAnd (4) stirring, heating to 95 ℃, preserving the heat for 20 minutes, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution. The recovery rate of tungsten is up to 97.5%, Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO2The leaching rates of (A) were 1.5%, 1.1%, 0.8% and 1.2%, respectively.
Example 4: the method for producing the sodium tungstate solution by using the tungsten-containing waste comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: taking 30g of blocky tungsten-containing waste, adding sodium carbonate with the mass ratio of 4 times into the tungsten-containing waste, and uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture; roasting the mixture at 1200 ℃ for 1h to obtain a roasted material;
Step two: after the roasted material is cooled to room temperature, adding water with the weight ratio of 8:1 to the roasted material to soak for 2 hours to obtain slurry, stirring the slurry to soak for 1 hour at the water soaking temperature of 80 ℃, and filtering to obtain filter residue and leachate after water soaking;
step three: and (4) adding sulfuric acid into the leachate obtained in the step two to adjust the pH value of the leachate to 11, stirring, heating to 80 ℃, keeping the temperature for 20 minutes, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution. The recovery rate of tungsten is up to 98.2%, Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO2The leaching rates of (A) were 1.5%, 0.6%, 0.3%, and 1.4%, respectively.
Example 5: the method for producing the sodium tungstate solution by using the tungsten-containing waste comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: taking 40g of powdery tungsten-containing waste, adding 1 time of sodium carbonate and 0.5 time of sodium bicarbonate into the tungsten-containing waste respectively in mass ratio, and uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture; roasting the mixture at 500 ℃ for 3h to obtain a roasted material;
step two: after the roasted material is cooled to room temperature, adding water with the weight ratio of 6:1 to the roasted material to soak for 3 hours to obtain slurry, stirring the slurry to soak for 1 hour at the water soaking temperature of 60 ℃, and filtering to obtain filter residue and leachate after water soaking;
step three: and (4) adding phosphoric acid into the leachate obtained in the step two to adjust the pH value of the leachate to 10, stirring, heating to 95 ℃, keeping the temperature for 20 minutes, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution. The recovery rate of tungsten is up to 98.6%, Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO 2The leaching rates of (A) were 1.3%, 1.1% and 0, respectively.9%、1.2%。
Example 6: the method for producing the sodium tungstate solution by using the tungsten-containing waste comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: taking 60g of blocky tungsten-containing waste, adding 1 time of sodium hydroxide and 1 time of sodium bicarbonate into the tungsten-containing waste respectively in mass ratio, and uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture; roasting the mixture at 1000 ℃ for 2h to obtain a roasted material;
step two: after the roasted material is cooled to room temperature, adding water with the weight ratio of 3:1 to the roasted material to soak for 4 hours to obtain slurry, stirring the slurry to soak for 0.5 hour at the water soaking temperature of 20 ℃, and filtering to obtain filter residue and leachate;
step three: and (4) adding hydrochloric acid into the leachate obtained in the step two to adjust the pH value of the leachate to 11, stirring, heating to 60 ℃, preserving heat for 30 minutes, and filtering to obtain a sodium tungstate solution. The recovery rate of tungsten reaches 99.6 percent, and Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO2The leaching rates of (A) were 0.9%, 0.5%, 0.3%, and 0.7%, respectively.
Comparative example 1
Other conditions are not changed, the mass ratio of the sodium hydroxide addition amount to the massive tungsten scraps is changed to be 0.5 times in example 1, the final tungsten recovery rate is only 46.8 percent, and the Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO are added2The leaching rates of (A) were 0.5%, 0.4%, 0.3%, and 0.7%, respectively.
Comparative example 2
The final recovery rate of tungsten was only 99.7% by changing the amount of sodium hydroxide added to the bulk tungsten scrap in example 1 to 5 times the mass ratio with the other conditions being unchanged, but the final recovery rate of Cr, Cu, Fe, SiO2The leaching rates are respectively 25.8 percent, 1.2 percent, 0.9 percent and 36.9 percent, namely under the premise of ensuring the high-efficiency alkali-melting conversion effect of the tungsten component, the more the alkali is used, the more Cr and SiO are in the sodium tungstate solution2The impurity content is obviously improved.
Comparative example 3
The other conditions are not changed, the roasting temperature and the roasting time in the example 2 are respectively changed into 400 ℃ and 0.3h, the final recovery rate of the tungsten is only 67.3 percent, and the Cr, Cu, Fe and SiO2The leaching rates of (A) and (B) were 1.4%, 5.1%, 6.2% and 0.7%, respectively, that isThe roasting temperature is reduced, the roasting time is shortened, the recovery rate of tungsten is obviously reduced, and the leaching rates of Cu and Fe are higher than 5%, so that the impurity contents of Cu and Fe in the sodium tungstate solution are higher.
Comparative example 4
Under the same conditions, sodium carbonate with the mass ratio of 2 times that of the tungsten-containing waste material in example 3 was added, and sodium peroxide, sodium nitrate and sodium percarbonate with the mass ratio of 0.2 time that of the tungsten-containing waste material were added, respectively, so that the recovery rate of tungsten was 98.1%, but the leaching rates of Cr were 7.4%, 11.8% and 5.3%, respectively, i.e., the content of Cr in the sodium tungstate solution was relatively high.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, however, the present invention is not limited to the specific details of the above embodiments, and various simple modifications may be made to the technical solution of the present invention within the technical idea of the present invention, and these simple modifications are within the protective scope of the present invention.