The invention provides a method for preparing aluminum
oxide and extracting
lithium from
lithium-rich
bauxite waste rocks, and belongs to the technical field of
solid waste comprehensive utilization. The method comprises the following steps: crushing and
grinding the
lithium-rich
bauxite waste rocks, mixing with an acid
mixed solution, leaching to remove iron to obtain a low-iron
filter cake, adding concentrated
sulfuric acid,
roasting, curing, leaching with water, carrying out hot
filtration to obtain a filtrate, adding a crystallizing agent, dissolving, evaporating to obtain a
steel belt crystallizer
crystal, stirring and washing a saturated solution to obtain a lithium-containing solution and low-iron
aluminum ammonium sulfate, purifying the lithium-containing solution to remove impurities, and precipitating lithium with
sodium carbonate to prepare
lithium carbonate; and calcining the low-iron
ammonium aluminum
sulfate to prepare aluminum
oxide. The method provided by the invention has the advantages of simple process, low
energy consumption in
roasting and leaching of aluminum and lithium, high
recovery rate of valuable components of aluminum and lithium, high
iron removal rate, high separation efficiency of aluminum and lithium, low extraction cost of aluminum and lithium, recyclability of the crystallizing agent and the like, is easy for industrial implementation, and greatly improves the comprehensive utilization value of the lithium-rich
bauxite waste rocks.