The present application relates to the technical field of
potassium iodide, and provides a purification method of
potassium iodide containing perfluorinated organic impurities, wherein the impurities in the
potassium iodide crude product are perfluorinated organic compounds with the number of C atoms being greater than or equal to 6 and the
mass content being greater than or equal to 20%, and the purification method comprises: adding the potassium iodide crude product into an
alcohol lye to perform heating
reflux to degrade the perfluorinated organic compounds; the
alcohol lye is obtained by dissolving an alkaline compound containing an
alkali metal or an
alkaline earth metal in
alcohol, and the
mass concentration of the alkaline compound in the alcohol lye is less than or equal to 20%. The method of the present application is not only simple in operation and suitable for industrialization, but also can make the purity of the purified potassium iodide reach more than 98%, and the highest
recovery rate can reach 97%, and the whole process does not produce three wastes, has low
energy consumption and small risk, which is specifically reflected in that the amount of foam entraining particles during boiling is reduced, the risk of equipment and pipeline blockage is greatly reduced, the safety is high, and the presence of the alkali greatly increases the
solubility of the perfluorinated organic impurities, and the purification efficiency is high.