The invention provides a method for extracting an
antimony metal. A device adopted by the method for extracting the
antimony metal comprises an electrothermal volatilization device, a first dust collection device and an electrothermal reduction device which are connected in sequence. The method comprises the following steps: performing volatilization
smelting on an
antimony-containing material inthe electrothermal volatilization device so as to obtain an antimony-containing
flue gas, wherein the antimony-containing material comprises antimony
sulfide; collecting the antimony-containing
flue gas from the first dust collection device so as to obtain
antimony oxide dust; performing reduction
smelting on the
antimony oxide dust in the electrothermal reduction device, so as to obtain the antimony
metal. The antimony-containing material is subjected to volatilization
smelting through
electric heating, and the whole volatilization
smelting process needs no air blown
combustion fuel, so thatthe
flue gas quantity can be greatly reduced, and the concentration of SO2 in the
flue gas can be increased. High
electric heating efficiency can be achieved, not only is the amount of a fluxing agentreduced, but also residues can be reduced, and comprehensive benefits of environment protection,
energy conservation, recycling rate increase, and the like, can be achieved. Due to electrothermal reduction, the heat efficiency can be greatly improved, the
energy consumption can be reduced, the smelting intensity can be greatly improved, and the number of reduction devices can be greatly reduced.