The invention discloses a method for refining
cobalt nickel hydroxide and separating
nickel and
cobalt, and belongs to the technical field of
metal production or refining. The method comprises the following steps: adding water into
cobalt nickel hydroxide for
wetting, introducing
oxygen or
ozone for oxidizing and slurrying, and performing ultrasonic enhancement to obtain cobalt nickel
hydroxide slurrying liquid; adding dilute sulphuric acid for
selective leaching; carrying out
vanadium precipitation and
iron removal on the leach liquor subjected to
selective leaching; a
phosphoric acid extraction agent, an
alkyl hydroxime extraction agent and an organic
diluent are compounded to form a synergistic extraction
system,
saponification is carried out, and the saponified synergistic extraction
system is used for carrying out nickel and cobalt dynamic extraction separation on the leaching solution obtained after
vanadium precipitation and
iron removal. According to the method, the cobalt extraction speed of a synergistic extraction agent
system is higher than that of nickel, cobalt is extracted preferentially, then nickel extraction is conducted on cobalt extraction
raffinate, nickel and cobalt are directly extracted into an organic phase, and nickel and cobalt products are obtained through separation and purification. Efficient extraction of nickel and cobalt and effective separation of nickel and cobalt from iron,
scandium,
manganese and the like can be achieved, and the extraction pH is reduced.