The invention discloses a method for recovering
rhodium from production waste liquid of
rhodium octanoate
dimer. The method comprises the following steps of (1) heating the waste liquid to certain temperature, then, adding
hydrochloric acid, cooling to certain temperature after a reaction is made for a period of time, adding an extracting agent, stirring, standing and conducting oil and water separation; (2) adding an anti-boiling agent into an
oil phase obtained after separation, performing
ashing treatment on the organic phase by employing a temperature
programming method after uniform stirring, and absorbing
tail gas with a diluted
ethanol water solution; (3) washing a product obtained after
ashing with water, filtering,
drying residues, performing heating, performing
drying and absorbing
tail gas with water; and (4) performing washing, and taking a solution for concentrating and
drying to obtain water-soluble
rhodium chloride, wherein the water-soluble rhodium
chloride can be reused as a
raw material of producing the rhodium octanoate
dimer; and the rhodium
recovery rate is greater than 96 %, and the rhodium purity is higher than 99 %. The method provided by the invention has asimple process, and is capable of effectively removing a lot of salts, so that
roasting efficiency is increased,
energy consumption and rhodium losses are effectively reduced, and the recovered rhodium
chloride is high in purity, and can be used as the
raw material for continued use.