The invention discloses a method for separating and extracting
vanadium and
chromium. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) producing
chromium fine sand (Cr2O3) of which the content is over 80 percent and
ferric vandate of which the content is over 20 percent from two waste materials by taking waste acid of a
titanium powder plant as a leaching agent and
vanadium-
chromium slag (containing 2.5 to 4.5 percent of
vanadium and 14 to 25 percent of chromium) as a
raw material; (2) putting the vanadium-chromium
slag into the waste acid to allow the chromium and the vanadium in the
slag to form chromium
sulfate and
vanadyl sulfate which can be dissolved in water very easily, wherein the leaching time is about 6 hours; (3) adding a certain amount of steel making steel slag during leaching to fulfill the aim of generating a great deal of
calcium sulfate when a great deal of
calcium oxide meets the acid during
filtration, and wrapping, adsorbing or and stopping '
silica gel' formed by
silicon dioxide in the chromium slag by the
calcium sulfate which is used as a filter medium to ensure that the
filtration is performed smoothly; (4) adjusting the pH value of the filtrate to be 2.5 by using
sodium hydroxide, and then adding an oxidant and oxydol to ensure that the chromium in the solution is oxidized to be hexavalent, the iron is oxidized to be trivalent, and the vanadium is oxidized to be pentavalent; (5) heating the leaching solution to the temperature of between 70 and 90 DEG C to ensure that the vanadium and the iron is combined together to generate water-fast '
ferric vandate', wherein the time for thermal
precipitation is about one hour, and the vanadium residual in the solution is not more than 0.4 g / L; (6) adding
sodium hydroxide into the solution of which the
ferric vandate is filtered out, and fully stirring the mixture until the pH value of the solution is between 5.5 and 5.9 to ensure that the chromium in the solution is completely converted into chromium.