The invention relates to a method for recycling 
vanadium and 
molybdenum from a waste 
petroleum catalyst, and belongs to the technical field of 
petrochemical industry. The method comprises air-burning and ball-removing, ball-milling, soda 
roasting-water leaching, aluminum removing, 
molybdenum precipitating and enriching 
molybdenum by 
ion exchange. The method specifically comprises the following steps: firstly, igniting sticky oil in the waste catalyst in air to burn carbon and oils in the waste catalyst; then, oxidizing the 
vanadium and 
nickel in the forms of 
porphyrin compounds in the waste catalyst into 
vanadium oxide and 
nickel oxide, converting most of the molybdenum into 
molybdenum oxide, wherein the waste catalyst subjected to air-burning and oil-removing is more beneficial for crushing, and the crushed waste catalyst and a certain proportion of 
sodium carbonate are mixed, and are roasted at a high temperature; leaching roasted materials by hot water, dissolving 
sodium salts of the vanadium and the molybdenum into water to obtain a solution, filtering the solution, introducing the filtered solution into a leaching solution, introducing a little aluminum into the leaching solution, regulating the pH value of the solution to remove aluminum; regulating the pH value of the solution to 8-9, adding 
ammonium chloride, precipitating and separating out the vanadium in the form of 
ammonium vanadate; and concentrating vanadium-precipitated solution by adopting an 
ion exchange process and enriching an 
ammonium molybdate solution.