The invention discloses a method for extracting valuable elements from waste denitration catalysts by virtue of medium-temperature tunnel type
solid-state activation. The method comprises the following steps of carrying out superfine treatment on broken the SCR denitration waste catalysts which are used as raw materials, adding proper
alkali salt and an activating agent, mixing, carrying out
extrusion forming, feeding the mixture into a tunnel type activation reaction
machine to be activated, carrying out water
quenching on the activated material, carrying out
slurry mixing, pumping
slurry toan ultrasonic high-efficiency leaching tank, and leaching ore pulp to obtain leached residues and
vanadium-containing and
tungsten-containing filtrate through
filtration; washing and
drying the leaching residues to obtain a
titanium dioxide product; adding a
double salt into the filtrate to remove impurities of
silicon and aluminum, adding a precipitant into liquid with the impurities removed to precipitate
vanadium and
tungsten, then after conducting washing and filtering on the precipitate and selectively leaching the
vanadium out of the precipitate, carrying out liquid-
solid separation, andwashing and
drying the obtained
slag phase to obtain a
calcium tungstate product; and adding
ammonium hydroxide into the vanadium-containing filtrate to precipitate vanadium, and finally recovering the vanadium element in the form of
ammonium metavanadate. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the valuable elements in the waste catalysts are finely separated, the
recovery rate is high, the
energy consumption is low, and the produced waste liquid is recycled, thus avoiding secondary
pollution.