The invention discloses a novel method for comprehensively recycling
cobalt,
nickel,
manganese and
lithium elements from ternary battery waste and relates to a recycling method of the battery waste. The method comprises steps of disassembling a waste ternary battery to obtain waste ternary battery
powder, carrying out acid leaching,
copper removal, iron and aluminum removal and the like to obtainimpurity removal solution, regulating a pH value of the
impurity removal solution with
sodium hydroxide, precipitating mixture of
cobalt hydroxide and
nickel hydroxide, vulcanizing and precipitating residual
cobalt and
nickel ions with
sodium sulfide, separating
manganese ions from cobalt and
nickel ions, and directly precipitating
manganese hydroxide to prevent manganese ions from entering the extraction process, dissolving the
cobalt hydroxide and nickel hydroxide mixture with
sulfuric acid, extracting to remove impurities, separating cobalt and nickel to obtain pure nickel
sulfate solution,precipitating with
sodium hydroxide, and reversely washing for three times to obtain a battery-grade nickel hydroxide product. The method is advantaged in that a problem of high
recovery cost causedby the fact that the cobalt, nickel and manganese elements must be subjected to extraction and back extraction in the prior art is solved, by innovating a process
route, most of manganese ions are separated and removed before extraction,
nickel ions are not subjected to the full-extraction and full-reverse extraction process, and nickel hydroxide is directly precipitated only after the
related impurities are removed by extraction. The method has advantages of simple process, reduction of
material consumption and
energy consumption and remarkable reduction of production cost.