CN113913615A - Method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries - Google Patents

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CN113913615A
CN113913615A CN202111116403.9A CN202111116403A CN113913615A CN 113913615 A CN113913615 A CN 113913615A CN 202111116403 A CN202111116403 A CN 202111116403A CN 113913615 A CN113913615 A CN 113913615A
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Abstract

The invention aims to provide a method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries, which has the advantages of low cost, low energy consumption, environmental friendliness and high valuable metal recovery efficiency. The method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries comprises the steps of calcining a waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate, removing aluminum foils and organic impurities in the aluminum foils, and obtaining a positive powder material; adding a certain amount of organic acid salt or organic acid with a chelating function into the obtained powder material as a grinding aid, adding the powder material and the grinding aid into a ball mill together, grinding and activating the powder material and the organic acid salt or organic acid with the chelating function, and simultaneously realizing selective leaching of valuable metals in the powder material.

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Method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries
Technical Field
The invention relates to a method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries.
Background
The recovery of the lithium iron phosphate battery mainly refers to the recovery of valuable metals of a positive electrode material (lithium). The lithium iron phosphate battery has the advantages of high safety, long service life, low cost, no toxicity and the like, and plays an important role in the market of electric automobiles. China is the largest producing country and consuming country of lithium iron phosphate, and in 2015, the yield of the electric automobile battery is 15.7GWH, wherein the lithium iron phosphate battery accounts for about 69%, and is expected to reach 25GWH in 2020. Although it is considered to be relatively environmentally friendly, the disposal of used lithium iron phosphate batteries results in the waste of valuable resources such as lithium and the like, and also causes environmental pollution problems because they contain toxic organic electrolytes. Therefore, it is necessary to recover the waste lithium iron phosphate batteries in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner.
In the recovery process of lithium iron phosphate batteries, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy and mechanochemical methods are widely used. Since lithium iron phosphate has a stable olivine structure, hydrometallurgy generally requires the use of H2SO4、HCl、H3PO4When the strong acid is used as a leaching agent, secondary pollution such as acidic or alkaline waste water, waste gas and waste residue can be caused; pyrometallurgy consumes a lot of energy, generates greenhouse gases, and has a complicated process. Therefore, there is a need to improve the original recovery method or develop an efficient, green and cost-effective method for recovering the waste lithium iron phosphate batteries.
The existing waste lithium ion battery recovery process uses less mechanochemical method and organic acid leaching method, and has certain technical defects. In some processes, the anode material and the active additive are mixed and ground firstly, and then the ground material is mixed with the inorganic acid for leaching experiments, so that the steps are complex, the operation is complicated, and the process time is long; some processes directly adopt organic acid and reducing agent to leach valuable metals, the leaching efficiency is not high, and reducing agent needs to be added.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems of high energy consumption, easy generation of pollutant toxic substances, low efficiency and high cost in the existing technology for recycling waste lithium iron phosphate batteries, the invention provides the method for selectively recycling the valuable metals of the waste lithium iron phosphate batteries, which has the advantages of low cost, low energy consumption, environmental friendliness and high valuable metal recycling efficiency, by utilizing organic acid and combining a mechanochemical method.
The method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries comprises the following steps:
A. calcining the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate, and removing aluminum foil and organic impurities in the aluminum foil to obtain a powder material;
B. adding a certain amount of chelating agent which is organic acid or organic acid salt with a chelating function into the powder material obtained in the step A, adding the powder material and the chelating agent into a ball mill together, grinding and activating the powder material, the organic acid salt or the organic acid, and simultaneously leaching valuable metals in the powder material;
C. washing the milled mixture from the ball mill pot with deionized water;
D. b, leaching the ground mixture obtained in the step B to obtain a leaching solution;
E. adding Na into the leaching solution2CO3To obtain Li2CO3And (4) precipitating.
Preferably, the calcining temperature of the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate in the step A is 300-500 ℃, the calcining time is 0.5-3 hours, and the organic acid with the chelating function in the step B is alginic acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, oxalic acid or malic acid; the organic acid salt with chelating function is sodium alginate, sodium gluconate, sodium tartrate, sodium citrate, oxalic acid or sodium malate.
Preferably, the calcining temperature of the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate in the step A is 350-450 ℃, and the calcining time is 1-2 hours.
Preferably, in the step E, the leachate is stirred at 85-95 ℃ to evaporate water, and then saturated Na is added into the leachate2CO3Solution to obtain Li2CO3And (4) precipitating.
Compared with the prior art, the method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries has the following beneficial effects:
1. the present invention has proven to be an effective recovery method by promoting leaching of valuable metals by means of mechanochemical methods. The mechanochemical method is a method of applying mechanical energy to an object by compression, shearing, friction, extension and the like to induce physical and chemical changes including phase change, structural defects, strain, amorphization, and even direct reaction at normal temperature and normal pressure, which can recover metal at high extraction efficiency at room temperature and shorten the process flow.
2. The invention adopts a mechanical and chemical combination method, and uses natural degradable organic acid or organic acid salt with chelating function as a ball milling auxiliary agent, thereby improving the leaching efficiency of metal ions and avoiding the defect of secondary pollution of a recovery technology. The extraction process is intensified by adopting a mechanochemical method, so that the extraction process of metal ions is promoted, and the selective extraction, separation and recovery of iron and lithium are realized.
3. The method adopts the organic acid with the chelating function or the organic acid salt with the chelating function as the grinding aid and the leaching agent, does not cause secondary pollution to the environment, is green and environment-friendly, and has high recovery efficiency. The mechanochemical reaction can reduce the particle size, destroy the crystal structure of a substance, facilitate the recovery of valuable metals, improve the recovery efficiency, reduce the process cost, integrate the mechanochemical activation process and the acid leaching process, have simple operation and great industrial application potential. Therefore, the method for selectively recovering valuable metals from the waste lithium iron phosphate batteries has the characteristics of low cost, low energy consumption, environmental friendliness and high valuable metal recovery efficiency.
The present invention is described in further detail below.
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The method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries comprises the following steps:
the method for selectively recovering valuable metals of the waste lithium iron phosphate batteries comprises the following steps:
A. calcining the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate, and removing aluminum foil and organic impurities in the aluminum foil to obtain a powder material;
B. adding a certain amount of chelating agent into the powder material obtained in the step A as a grinding aid, wherein the chelating agent is organic acid with a chelating function or organic acid salt with a chelating function, the chelating agent can enable the powder material to be changed into paste suitable for grinding, adding the powder material and the chelating agent into a ball mill together, grinding and activating the powder material, the organic acid salt or the organic acid, and simultaneously leaching valuable metals in the powder material;
the chelating agent functions to form a complex with a valuable metal by a coordinate bond, dissolve in a solution, and separate from the remaining insoluble metal.
C. Washing the milled mixture from the ball mill pot with deionized water;
D. b, leaching the ground mixture obtained in the step B to obtain a leaching solution;
E. adding Na into the leaching solution2CO3To obtain Li2CO3And (4) precipitating.
As a further improvement of the invention, in the step a, the calcining temperature of the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate is 300-500 ℃, the calcining time is 0.5-3 hours, and the organic acid with a chelating function in the step B is alginic acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, oxalic acid or malic acid; the organic acid salt with chelating function is sodium alginate, sodium gluconate, sodium tartrate, sodium citrate, sodium oxalate or sodium malate. The organic acid or organic acid salt can also play a role of a grinding aid besides being used as an extracting agent;
as a further improvement of the invention, the calcining temperature of the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate in the step A is 350-450 ℃, and the calcining time is 1-2 hours.
As a further improvement of the invention, in the step E, the leachate is stirred at 85-95 ℃ to evaporate water, and then saturated Na is added into the leachate2CO3Solution to obtain Li2CO3And (4) precipitating.
The existing waste lithium ion battery recovery technology has the disadvantages of large energy consumption, high cost, easy generation of waste water, waste residue and harmful gas which are not friendly to the environment, secondary pollution and complex flow. Aiming at the defects of the traditional recovery technology, the invention designs and develops the lithium ion battery anode material recovery technology with low cost, high efficiency and short flow, and achieves the purposes of improving the recovery rate of valuable metals, improving the defect of secondary pollution of the recovery technology, shortening the process flow and the like.
The invention adopts organic acid or organic acid salt with chelating function as grinding auxiliary agent, combines mechanochemical method to recover material, and utilizes precipitation method to recover valuable metal from waste lithium ion battery.
The grinding aid is organic acid with a chelating function, such as alginic acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, oxalic acid and malic acid, or organic acid salt with a chelating function, such as one of sodium alginate, sodium gluconate, sodium tartrate, sodium citrate, sodium oxalate, sodium malate and the like; the organic acid or organic acid salt with chelating function can also play a role of a grinding aid besides being used as an extracting agent;
the invention carries out ball milling on the anode material, the activating agent, the organic acid or organic acid salt with chelating function and the like together to carry out mechanochemical activation, integrates the grinding activation process and the metal leaching process, shortens the process flow, reduces the operation steps and can ensure high-efficiency leaching rate.
The method adopts the organic acid with the chelating function or the organic acid salt with the chelating function as the grinding aid and the leaching agent, does not cause secondary pollution to the environment, is green and environment-friendly, and has high recovery efficiency. The mechanochemical reaction can reduce the particle size, destroy the crystal structure of a substance, facilitate the recovery of valuable metals, improve the recovery efficiency, reduce the process cost, integrate the mechanochemical activation process and the acid leaching process, have simple operation and great industrial application potential.

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1. The method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries is characterized by comprising the following steps of: the method for selectively recovering valuable metals of the waste lithium iron phosphate batteries comprises the following steps:
A. calcining the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate, and removing aluminum foil and organic impurities in the aluminum foil to obtain a powder material;
B. adding a certain amount of chelating agent which is organic acid or organic acid salt with a chelating function into the powder material obtained in the step A, adding the powder material and the chelating agent into a ball mill together, grinding and activating the powder material, the organic acid salt or the organic acid, and simultaneously leaching valuable metals in the powder material;
C. washing the milled mixture from the ball mill pot with deionized water;
D. b, leaching the ground mixture obtained in the step B to obtain a leaching solution;
E. adding Na into the leaching solution2CO3To obtain Li2CO3And (4) precipitating.
2. The method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries according to claim 1, characterized in that: the calcining temperature of the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate in the step A is 300-500 ℃, the calcining time is 0.5-3 hours, the organic acid with the chelation function in the step B is alginic acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, oxalic acid or malic acid, and the organic acid salt with the chelation function is sodium alginate, sodium gluconate, sodium tartrate, sodium citrate, sodium oxalate or sodium malate.
3. The method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries according to claim 2, characterized in that: and B, calcining the waste lithium iron phosphate positive plate in the step A at the temperature of 350-450 ℃ for 1-2 hours.
4. The method for selectively recovering valuable metals of waste lithium iron phosphate batteries according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: in the step E, the leachate is stirred at 85-95 ℃ to evaporate water, and then saturated Na is added into the leachate2CO3Solution to obtain Li2CO3And (4) precipitating.
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