This invention relates to a method for preparing monocrystalline
lead oxide from waste lead paste using a low-temperature pyrometallurgical process, belonging to the field of resource recycling technology for waste lead-acid batteries. The invention involves removing waste positive and negative
electrode plates from lead-acid batteries and washing them with water; peeling waste lead paste from the grids of the waste positive and negative
electrode plates,
grinding and sieving to obtain waste lead paste
powder; mixing the waste lead paste
powder with a desulfurizing agent, a desulfurization aid, and a
crystal form control agent to obtain mixture A; calcining mixture A at 400-600℃ for 2-8 hours, followed by furnace cooling to obtain mixture B; washing and
drying mixture B to obtain monocrystalline
lead oxide, which is α-PbO, β-PbO, or Pb3O4. This invention directly uses waste lead paste from lead-acid batteries for a one-step low-temperature pyrometallurgical process to prepare monocrystalline
lead oxide. The desulfurizing agent can directly desulfurize the waste lead paste, the desulfurization aid can lower the
calcination temperature, and the
crystal form control agent regulates the
crystal structure of the generated lead
oxide species, resulting in monocrystalline lead
oxide with high purity and good
crystallinity.