The invention provides a preparation method of
spinel-structure
lithium titanate. The preparation method comprises the following steps: 1, taking
metatitanic acid produced in a process of producing
titanium dioxide with a
sulfuric acid method; preparing the
metatitanic acid into
slurry A with de-ionized water; 2, adding calcining seed crystals, which are widely used in a process of producing
rutile-type
titanium dioxide with the
sulfuric acid method, into the
slurry A, wherein the
mass ratio of TiO2 in the calcining seed crystals to TiO2 in the
slurry A is (2 to 20) to 100; after uniformly stirring, filtering and washing with water; stopping
water washing when the pH (Potential of
Hydrogen) value is greater than 1.8; adding de-ionized water into a
filter cake to prepare slurry B with the TiO2 concentration of 200g / L to 400g / L; 3, adding a
lithium source into the slurry B according to the
mole ratio of Li to Ti of 0.82 to 0.97; sufficiently and uniformly stirring to obtain slurry C; 4, conveying the slurry C into a
rotary kiln; heating and calcining to finish
dehydration, desulfurization and
crystal form transformation to prepare the
spinel-structure
lithium titanate. According to the preparation method provided by the invention, all the methods are slurry processes, and dry-method crushing and
grinding do not need to be carried out before the
crystal form transformation is finished by heating so that
energy consumption is low; a
titanium source is cheap and easy to obtain.