CN113942994A - Method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon block of electrolytic aluminum - Google Patents

Method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon block of electrolytic aluminum Download PDF

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CN113942994A
CN113942994A CN202111245163.2A CN202111245163A CN113942994A CN 113942994 A CN113942994 A CN 113942994A CN 202111245163 A CN202111245163 A CN 202111245163A CN 113942994 A CN113942994 A CN 113942994A
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王庆烜
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Abstract

The invention provides a method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon blocks of electrolytic aluminum, and relates to the technical field of electrolytic aluminum. The invention comprises the following steps: a. crushing the waste cathode by a crusher, and ball-milling the crushed carbon blocks; b. putting the ball-milled carbon blocks into powder mixing equipment, and adding ammonium bicarbonate to uniformly mix the carbon blocks and the powder; c. mixing ammonium bicarbonate and carbon block, pressing into blocks, and vacuum distilling in a vacuum distillation apparatus; d. after the vacuum distillation equipment finishes distillation, taking out the distillation residue and adding a mixed solution of hydrochloric acid and aluminum chloride; e. mixing the distillation residues with the solution for a certain time, filtering the distillation residues, and washing and drying the distillation residues to obtain a carbonaceous material; and c, controlling the content of ammonium bicarbonate in the step b to be 5%, recovering hydrogen generated in the step d, and recovering the metal sodium and the electrolyte separated after vacuum distillation.

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Method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon block of electrolytic aluminum
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of electrolytic aluminum, in particular to a method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon blocks of electrolytic aluminum.
Background
As the worldwide aluminum production capacity increases, the amount of waste associated with this industry is also increasing. The treatment of waste cathodes generated during the production of electrolytic aluminum is a serious environmental problem faced by the primary aluminum industry. In the production process of electrolytic aluminum, the carbon cathode is eroded by fluoride ions, sodium ions and the like to be scrapped, so that a large amount of waste cathodes are generated every year. The waste cathode is a dangerous solid waste containing various components, and serious environmental problems are caused when the waste cathode is not properly treated.
At present, the method for treating the waste cathode carbon blocks mainly comprises a beneficiation method and a metallurgical method, wherein the beneficiation method mainly adopts a flotation method, the method adopts various reagents with high price and can generate a large amount of wastewater, the metallurgical method is divided into a wet method and a fire method, the wet method comprises a chemical leaching method, a sulfuric acid hydrolysis method, a lime water soaking method and the like, the fire method mainly comprises a rotary kiln roasting method, a high-temperature hydrolysis method, a bauxite sintering method and the like, the chemical leaching method has long treatment time and complicated leachate treatment, the sulfuric acid hydrolysis method needs to consume a large amount of acid, a large amount of wastewater is generated at the same time, the treatment cost is high, the lime water soaking method has low speed, the reaction is not thorough, the carbonaceous materials are not utilized, and the resource waste is caused.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to develop a method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon blocks of electrolytic aluminum, which can recycle carbonaceous materials.
The invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
a method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon blocks of electrolytic aluminum comprises the following steps:
a. crushing the waste cathode by a crusher, and ball-milling the crushed carbon blocks;
b. putting the ball-milled carbon blocks into powder mixing equipment, and adding ammonium bicarbonate to uniformly mix the carbon blocks and the powder;
c. mixing ammonium bicarbonate and carbon block, pressing into blocks, and vacuum distilling in a vacuum distillation apparatus;
d. after the vacuum distillation equipment finishes distillation, taking out the distillation residue and adding a mixed solution of hydrochloric acid and aluminum chloride;
e. mixing the distillation residues with the solution for a certain time, filtering the distillation residues, and washing and drying the distillation residues to obtain a carbonaceous material;
and c, controlling the content of ammonium bicarbonate in the step b to be 5%, recovering hydrogen generated in the step d, and recovering the metal sodium and the electrolyte separated after vacuum distillation.
Optionally, the distillation temperature of the vacuum distillation equipment in the step c is 1100-1500 ℃.
Optionally, the distillation pressure in the step c is 10-50 Pa.
Optionally, the distillation time in the step c is 2-6 h.
Optionally, after the distillation residue taken out in the step d is cooled, a powder depolymerization beater is used for beating up the distillation residue.
Optionally, in the step d, the distillation residues and the aluminum chloride hydrochloride mixed solution are stirred and mixed by a stirrer, and the two are mixed for 12 hours.
Optionally, sodium hydroxide is added into the solution reacted with the distillation residues in the step e, and the generated precipitate is filtered.
Optionally, the solution is crystallized after filtering and precipitating, and the crystallized sodium chloride is recovered.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the ammonium bicarbonate is added as the pore-forming agent, so that the electrolyte can be more fully volatilized, compared with a beneficiation method and a metallurgical method, a large amount of waste water is not generated, the use of the agent is less, the treatment cost is reduced, and the carbon material after being washed and dried can be recycled.
Detailed Description
In the following, only certain exemplary embodiments are briefly described. As those skilled in the art can appreciate, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.
The invention discloses a method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon blocks of electrolytic aluminum, which comprises the steps of crushing the waste cathode carbon blocks by a crusher, ball-milling the crushed carbon blocks, feeding the ball-milled carbon blocks into powder mixing equipment, adding ammonium bicarbonate to uniformly mix the carbon blocks and the crushed carbon blocks, controlling the content of the ammonium bicarbonate to be 5%, pressing the carbon blocks mixed with the ammonium bicarbonate into blocks, and putting the blocks into vacuum distillation equipment.
The distillation temperature in the vacuum distillation equipment is 1100-1500 ℃, the distillation pressure is 10-50 Pa, and the distillation time is 2-6 h.
When the distillation temperature is low, the saturated vapor pressure of the electrolyte is relatively low, the volatilization rate is relatively slow, the saturated vapor pressure of the electrolyte is increased along with the increase of the distillation temperature, the volatilization rate is increased, and the removal rates of the three elements of sodium, fluorine and aluminum are increased along with the increase of the distillation temperature. The boiling point of carbon is extremely high, carbon is mainly remained in the distillation residues in the vacuum distillation process, the carbon content in the distillation residues is increased along with the rise of the distillation temperature, the weight loss rate reflects the volatilization amount of the electrolyte to a certain extent, and the weight loss rate is gradually increased along with the rise of the temperature, so that the distillation temperature is optimally 1500 ℃.
The waste cathode carbon block mainly comprises carbon with the content of 30-70%, and other components mainly comprise electrolytes such as fluoride and cyanide, wherein the fluoride comprises sodium hexafluoroaluminate, alumina, sodium fluoride, calcium fluoride and the like. The saturated vapor pressure of the fluoride is increased along with the rise of the temperature, the higher the temperature is, the more beneficial the volatilization of the fluoride is, the temperature is within 1300K-1700K, and the saturated vapor pressure of most of the fluoride is more than 100 Pa.
And after vacuum distillation, recovering the separated sodium metal and electrolyte, returning the electrolyte to an electrolytic tank for use, taking out the distillation residues in the vacuum distillation equipment, cooling, scattering the distillation residues by using a powder depolymerization scattering machine, putting the distillation residues into a closed container, adding a mixed solution of hydrochloric acid and aluminum chloride, stirring by using a stirrer, mixing the two solutions for 12 hours, filtering to obtain the distillation residues, and washing and drying the distillation residues to obtain the carbonaceous material. The method comprises the following steps of recovering hydrogen generated in the mixing process of distillation residues and an aluminum chloride hydrochloride mixed solution, reacting hydrochloric acid with aluminum and other metal oxides in the distillation residues to generate water and chloride, effectively promoting calcium fluoride to be dissolved by aluminum chloride, adding sodium hydroxide into the solution after the reaction to neutralize, reacting the sodium hydroxide with the chloride in the solution to generate sodium chloride and hydroxide precipitate, reacting the aluminum chloride with the sodium hydroxide to generate aluminum hydroxide precipitate and sodium chloride, precipitating the calcium fluoride in the solution, precipitating and filtering the solution, and crystallizing and recovering the sodium chloride solution.
Ammonium bicarbonate is added as a pore-forming agent, so that the electrolyte can be more fully volatilized, compared with a beneficiation method and a metallurgical method, a large amount of waste water is not generated, the use of the agent is less, the treatment cost is reduced, and the carbon material after being washed and dried can be recycled.
The above embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the technical solutions of the present invention, so long as the technical solutions can be realized on the basis of the above embodiments without creative efforts, which should be considered to fall within the protection scope of the patent of the present invention.

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1. A method for separating electrolyte from waste cathode carbon blocks in electrolytic aluminum is characterized by comprising the following steps:
a. crushing the waste cathode by a crusher, and ball-milling the crushed carbon blocks;
b. putting the ball-milled carbon blocks into powder mixing equipment, and adding ammonium bicarbonate to uniformly mix the carbon blocks and the powder;
c. mixing ammonium bicarbonate and carbon block, pressing into blocks, and vacuum distilling in a vacuum distillation apparatus;
d. after the vacuum distillation equipment finishes distillation, taking out the distillation residue and adding a mixed solution of hydrochloric acid and aluminum chloride;
e. mixing the distillation residues with the solution for a certain time, filtering the distillation residues, and washing and drying the distillation residues to obtain a carbonaceous material;
and c, controlling the content of ammonium bicarbonate in the step b to be 5%, recovering hydrogen generated in the step d, and recovering the metal sodium and the electrolyte separated after vacuum distillation.
2. The method for separating the electrolyte from the waste cathode carbon block of electrolytic aluminum according to claim 1, wherein the distillation temperature of the vacuum distillation equipment in the step c is 1100-1500 ℃.
3. The method for separating the electrolyte from the waste cathode carbon blocks in the electrolytic aluminum production according to claim 1, wherein the distillation pressure of the vacuum distillation equipment in the step c is 10-50 Pa.
4. The method for separating the electrolyte from the waste cathode carbon blocks in the electrolytic aluminum production according to claim 1, wherein the distillation time of the vacuum distillation equipment in the step c is 2-6 h.
5. The method for separating the electrolyte from the waste cathode carbon blocks of the electrolytic aluminum according to claim 1, wherein the distilled residues taken out in the step d are cooled and then broken up by a powder deagglomeration breaker.
6. The method for separating the electrolyte from the waste cathode carbon block of electrolytic aluminum according to claim 1, wherein the distillation residue and the mixed solution of aluminum chloride hydrochloride are stirred and mixed by a stirrer in the step d, and the two are mixed for 12 hours.
7. The method for separating the electrolyte from the waste cathode carbon block of electrolytic aluminum according to claim 1, wherein sodium hydroxide is added into the solution after the reaction with the distillation residues in the step e, and the generated precipitate is filtered.
8. The method for separating the electrolyte from the waste cathode carbon block of the electrolytic aluminum according to claim 7, wherein the solution is crystallized after filtering and precipitating, and the crystallized sodium chloride is recovered.
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