Method for recovering vanadium and tungsten from waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst
Technical Field
The invention relates to a method for recovering vanadium and tungsten from a waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst.
Background
The SCR denitration technology is the most applied and mature denitration technology in the world at present. The denitration method has the characteristics of high denitration efficiency, strong adaptability, high reliability and the like, and is widely applied. And SCR denitrationThe core of the system is a denitration catalyst, and a vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst is generally adopted. The denitration catalyst can be invalid due to poisoning, sintering, aging, abrasion, blockage and the like in the operation process of the catalyst, and although the catalyst can recover the activity through regeneration, the regeneration is not infinite. With the wide application of the SCR technology, the usage amount of the catalyst is multiplied, and the waste catalyst is more and more. The waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst is a dangerous waste containing a certain amount of TiO2、WO3And V2O5And alkali metals, molybdenum, nickel and the like can cause serious pollution to the environment when being improperly treated. Simultaneously, vanadium and tungsten5And are expensive raw materials for producing the catalyst. Therefore, the method has remarkable economic benefit and good environmental benefit when the vanadium and the tungsten are recovered.
CN103484678A discloses a method for recovering vanadium, tungsten and titanium from waste vanadium-tungsten-titanium-based denitration catalyst, which comprises the steps of preparing the catalyst into powder with the particle size of less than 100 meshes, and adding concentrated alkali liquor; heating to react vanadium, tungsten and titanium with alkali to generate slightly soluble titanate, water-soluble vanadate and tungstate; filtering to obtain titanate filter cake, and preparing titanate or titanic acid from the filter cake; adding ammonium salt into the filtrate to separate out ammonium metavanadate, and filtering to obtain ammonium metavanadate and new filtrate; adding concentrated acid into the new filtrate to prepare the solid tungstic acid.
CN102557142A discloses a method for recovering tungsten trioxide and ammonium metavanadate from SCR denitration catalyst, which comprises the steps of crushing and sieving the SCR denitration catalyst to prepare catalyst powder, adding sodium carbonate, fully and uniformly stirring, then putting the mixed powder into a sintering furnace to be calcined into sintering material, preserving heat for 1 hour, crushing and sieving to prepare sintering material powder, and then pouring warm water to ensure that Na in the sintering material powder is contained2WO4And NaVO3Dissolving completely, filtering, removing precipitate to obtain Na2WO4And NaVO3Mixing the solution; adjusting the pH value to 6.5-7.5, adding ammonia water to separate out ammonium metavanadate precipitate, washing for 2-3 times by using a dilute ammonium bicarbonate solution after filtering, then washing for 1-2 times by using 30% ethanol, and drying to obtain an ammonium metavanadate finished product; the residue is leftNa in the remaining solution2WO4Converted to ammonium paratungstate, the remaining solution is evaporated to obtain ammonium paratungstate crystals, which are then calcined to obtain tungsten trioxide.
The method for recovering tungsten and vanadium from SCR denitration catalyst in the prior art mainly uses alkali substances to convert V into V2O5And WO3Conversion to soluble Na2WO4And NaVO3Adding precipitant to make NaVO3And (4) after the precipitate is converted into ammonium metavanadate, filtering and separating the ammonium metavanadate, and recovering tungsten from the filtered solution. Although the method can effectively recover tungsten and vanadium, the process is relatively complex and is not easy to be applied industrially.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention provides a method for recovering vanadium and tungsten from a waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst, the method adopts a one-step hydrothermal method and simple separation, can effectively recover the vanadium and the tungsten in the waste catalyst, and has the advantages of simple process, low investment cost and environmental protection.
The method for recovering vanadium and tungsten from the waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst comprises the following steps:
(1) processing the pretreated waste vanadium-titanium system denitration catalyst into particles with a certain mesh number;
(2) carrying out hydrothermal ammonification treatment on the particles obtained in the step (1) in a pressure-resistant container, carrying out solid-liquid separation after the treatment is finished, standing the separated liquid phase for a period of time, separating out a precipitate which is ammonium metavanadate, and separating out the ammonium metavanadate to obtain a tungsten-containing solution;
(3) and adjusting the pH value of the tungsten-containing solution to 2-5, separating out a precipitate, and washing and removing impurities from the precipitate to obtain the tungstic acid.
In the method of the present invention, the waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst described in the step (1) is a waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst whose denitration performance is reduced due to dust deposition on the surface of the catalyst or due to clogging, poisoning, damage to a physical structure, and the like. The vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst contains a certain amount of active components such as vanadium and tungsten.
In the method of the present invention, the pretreatment in step (1) refers to removal of floating dust on the surface and dust deposition in the pore channels of the waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst, and generally adopts air purging, water washing, and other processes.
In the method of the present invention, the processing procedure described in step (1) is well known to those skilled in the art, and generally adopts the procedures of pulverizing, sieving, etc., and the mesh number is 140 meshes or more, preferably 200 meshes or more, and more preferably 400 meshes or 900 meshes.
In the method, the hydrothermal ammonification material system in the step (2) comprises the slurry of the particulate matters, the ammonium bicarbonate and the water obtained in the step (1), and the treatment conditions are as follows: the temperature is 120-160 ℃, and the time is 4-8 hours. The pressure-resistant container is generally a high-pressure reaction kettle; wherein the mass ratio of the particles to the ammonium bicarbonate is 1:8-1:4, the mass ratio of the solid phase to the water is 1:4-1:2, and the mass of the solid phase refers to the total mass of the ammonium bicarbonate and the particles before being dissolved in the water. The particles, ammonium bicarbonate and water can be added and mixed in any order, the mixing temperature is generally room temperature, the temperature can be properly increased in order to further facilitate the dissolution of the ammonium bicarbonate in the water, but the operation is not necessary.
In the method of the present invention, the solid-liquid separation method in step (2) may be filtration, centrifugation or the like.
In the method of the present invention, the standing in the step (2) may be performed at room temperature, generally not lower than 0 ℃, not higher than 30 ℃, preferably at a standing temperature of 1 to 10 ℃, and the standing time is preferably such that the weight of the crystal precipitated from the solution is not increased, generally 72 to 168 hours.
In the method of the present invention, hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid may be used to adjust the pH in step (3), and hydrochloric acid is preferred.
The method of the invention adopts a hydrothermal ammonification treatment process to remove WO in the waste catalyst in one step3And V2O5Conversion to NH4VO3And (NH)4) 2WO4. In a closed hydrothermal system, NH4VO3First dissolved in the mixed solution, and NH is generated when the mixed solution is stood at low temperature in the later period4VO3Precipitated from the solution in the form of crystals and filtered to obtain a solution containing tungsten. When the vanadium is recovered by the conventional method, the vanadium needs to be firstly recoveredThen adding ammonium salt into the soluble vanadium salt solution to separate out vanadium in the form of ammonium metavanadate. Compared with the conventional method, the method can be used for preparing V in one step2O5Directly converted into ammonium metavanadate to be precipitated. The method has simple process, high recovery rate of vanadium and tungsten, and good purity.
Detailed Description
The following examples are provided to further illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the following examples.
Vanadium recovery = (0.78 × m)1)÷(m2X a%) where m1: mass m of ammonium metavanadate precipitated from the solution2: mass of waste catalyst added in hydrothermal treatment, a%: the mass percentage of vanadium pentoxide in the waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst.
Tungsten recovery = (0.93 × m)3)÷(m2X c%) where m3: mass of tungstic acid, m2: mass of waste catalyst added in hydrothermal treatment, c%: the mass percentage of tungsten oxide in the waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst.
XRF characterization: the components of the waste catalyst, the target material Rh and the light path atmosphere are analyzed by using a Japanese ZSX100e type X-ray fluorescence spectrometer: and (4) vacuum conditions.
WO is contained in the waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst adopted in the embodiment3:6.3wt%,V2O5: 3.4 wt%. Firstly, flushing with compressed air, then washing with deionized water to remove impurities such as fly ash on the surface of the waste catalyst, and finally drying. Ammonium bicarbonate, analytical pure grade, produced by far reaching chemical reagents limited, Tianjin.
Example 1
(1) Crushing and sieving the waste vanadium-titanium-containing denitration catalyst to prepare catalyst powder with 200-400 meshes;
(2) weighing 50 g of the waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst powder and 240 g of ammonium bicarbonate, adding 1000 g of distilled water into the materials, stirring for 20 minutes, transferring the mixed materials into a high-pressure kettle, heating to 135 ℃, and carrying out hydrothermal amination treatment for 7 hours. Filtering the material subjected to hydrothermal amination, standing the filtrate at 5 ℃ for 100 hours, filtering the filtrate after standing to obtain a crystal and a solution, wherein the crystal is determined as an ammonium metavanadate crystal by XRD, and the solution is determined as a tungsten-containing solution by chemical titration and ion chromatography;
(3) adding a hydrochloric acid solution into the solution in the step (2), controlling the pH value of the solution to be 2.3, separating out a precipitate, washing the precipitate to remove impurities, and determining that the precipitate is tungstic acid by XRD; through calculation, the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst is 84.3%, and the recovery rate of vanadium is 90.1%.
Example 2
The same as example 1, except that the amount of ammonium bicarbonate added was 310 g, the hydrothermal treatment temperature was 145 ℃ and the treatment time was 5 hours, the filtrate was allowed to stand at 6 ℃ and 120 hours, and the pH of the solution was controlled to 2.6; through calculation, the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst is 85.1%, and the recovery rate of vanadium is 91.2%.
Example 3
In the same manner as in example 1, except that the amount of ammonium hydrogencarbonate added was 340 g, the hydrothermal treatment temperature was 125 ℃ and the treatment time was 7.5 hours, the filtrate was allowed to stand at 10 ℃ and the solution was allowed to stand for 150 hours, the pH of the solution was controlled to 3.1, and it was found that the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst was 84.9% and the recovery rate of vanadium was 89.7%.
Example 4
The same as example 1, except that the amount of ammonium bicarbonate added was 210 g, the hydrothermal treatment temperature was 115 ℃ and the treatment time was 4 hours, the filtrate was allowed to stand at 3 ℃ and 90 hours, and the pH of the solution was controlled to 4.1; through calculation, the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst is 83.6%, and the recovery rate of vanadium is 88.4%.
Comparative example 1
The same as example 1, except that the amount of ammonium hydrogen carbonate added in step (2) was 80 g, the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst was 18.7% and the recovery rate of vanadium was 8.5%.
Comparative example 2
The same as example 1, except that the hydrothermal amination treatment temperature in the step (2) was 85 ℃, and the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst was 25.3% and the recovery rate of vanadium was 13.4% by calculation.
Comparative example 3
The same as example 1, except that the hydrothermal amination temperature in the step (2) was 210 ℃, and the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst was 66.4% and the recovery rate of vanadium was 73.8% by calculation.
In a comparative example 4,
in the same manner as in example 1, except that the hydrothermal time in step (2) was 2 hours, the recovery rate of tungsten in the treated waste vanadium-titanium denitration catalyst was 31.2% and the recovery rate of vanadium was 22.6%.
Comparative example 5
The same as example 1, except that ammonium bicarbonate was replaced with sodium carbonate and ammonium chloride in the step (2), the amount of sodium carbonate added was 27 g, the amount of ammonium chloride added was 13.5 g, no ammonium metavanadate crystal was precipitated from the treated solution, and the recovery rate of vanadium was 68.5%.