The invention relates to a battery-grade cobaltosic
oxide preparation method, which comprises the following steps of: preparing solution of
cobalt and solution of precipitator from a
cobalt raw material and a precipitator by using de-ionized water respectively; preparing a precursor by using a homogeneous
crystallization precipitation method, wherein the precipitate precursor is synthesized by adding the prepared solution of
cobalt at a certain concentration and the solution of precipitator at a certain concentration into a reactor according to a certain
molar ratio by using a cocurrent-flow feeding method, and effectively controlling chemical impurities,
crystallinity of crystals,
granularity, density and the like of the precursor by controlling parameters such as
reaction temperature, feeding speed, pH value and stirring speed; directly filling a water-containing
filter cake into a pot after washing and
dewatering, and controlling grain size and
crystal shape by using low-temperature
dehydration phase-change
calcination and high-temperature nodulizing
sintering; crushing by using a
machine and performing classified activation treatment; and finally, removing magnetic
metal foreign bodies to obtain the battery-grade cobaltosic
oxide similar to spheres. The battery-grade cobaltosic
oxide has
high density and high
chemical purity, the grain size is easy to control, grain composition is uniform and narrow in distribution, and the magnetic
metal foreign body content is low.