A novel technology is used for recycling iron and
vanadium from
calcium-rich or iron-rich steel
slag. The invention relates to a metallurgical method of extracting
vanadium, in particular to a method that extracts
vanadium or iron from abandoned steel
slag with multidisciplinary technologies. The technology has the following procedures: (1) The
calcium-rich or iron-rich steel
slag is crushed, the iron contained in the steel slag is recycled by
magnetic separation, and the material that will correspondingly change low-valent vanadium is roasted into high-valent vanadium contained in the material, or the material is first roasted and then magnetic separated; (2) the material is soaked with 95-98 percentage concentrated
sulfuric acid, and then
solid-liquid separation is conducted; (3) the acidity of lixivium is adjusted, to make sure the pH of the lixivium is in 1.0 to 2.3, and the oxidation-
reduction potential is -1000 to 200mv; (4) Extraction above grade two is adopted, the extraction
phase ratio O / A is 1 / 6 to 1 / 1, and then the aqueous phase unloaded; (5) the organic washing is applied in the load to remove iron, and the washing agent used is sulphate; (6) 0.25M to 1.5M alkaline solution is adopted as a stripping agent for back-extraction, with a
phase ratio of O / A 1 / 1 to 6 / 1, so as to deposit vanadium contained in solution. The invention is characterized by simple technology, low cost, small environmental
pollution and high
recovery ratio in the process of extracting vanadium and iron from
calcium-rich or iron-rich steel slag.