The present invention discloses a sand blasting rust removal apparatus, which comprises: a wet sand conveying device, a wet sand drying device, a dry sand tank, a sand blasting head, an air compressor, an air heating tank, and a hot air nozzle. During sand blasting rust removal operation, dry sand enters the dry sand tank, air is conveying into the air heating tank through the air compressor to be heat to form high pressure hot air, the dry sand is directly blasted on a steel workpiece under a high pressure hot air effect to carry out rust removal operation, a surface effect of the rust-removed steel workpiece is good, an anticorrosion standard of paints is achieved, the hot air nozzle can directly blow the high pressure hot air to the steel workpiece so as to produce a good rust removal effect and reduce a use amount of the sand, and rust removal can be performed only by using the high pressure hot air without the dry sand if the rust of the workpiece is less. In addition, the surface of the rust-removed workpiece is heated, paint adhesion is strong, and an anticorrosion effect is strong.