The invention provides a method for comprehensively recovering valuable elements from a waste ternary
lithium battery positive
electrode material, and relates to the technical field of waste
battery recycling. The recycling method comprises the following steps: 1) heating and dissolving
nickel cobalt manganese lithium sulfate crystals obtained by leaching the waste ternary
lithium battery positive
electrode material with
sulfuric acid as a
raw material, and then cooling to
room temperature for
crystallization to obtain
nickel cobalt sulfate crystals and
crystallization mother liquor; 2) dissolving the
cobalt nickel sulfate crystal, extracting to obtain a nickel sulfate solution and a cobalt-containing organic phase, crystallizing the nickel sulfate solution to obtain nickel sulfate, performing reverse extraction on the cobalt-containing organic phase to obtain a
cobalt sulfate solution, and crystallizing to obtain
cobalt sulfate; 3) adding a
nanofiltration aid into the
crystallization mother liquor, and then carrying out
nanofiltration to obtain a monovalent lithium solution and a high-valence element solution; the invention discloses a method for separating valuable elements from nickel, cobalt,
manganese and lithium, which comprises the following steps of: 1) preparing a monovalent lithium solution, 2) adding
manganese dioxide into the monovalent lithium solution, 4) adjusting the pH value of the monovalent lithium solution, and introducing a precipitator to precipitate lithium to obtain
lithium carbonate, and 5) adjusting the pH value of the high-valence element solution, adding manganese dioxide, and introducing
ozone to precipitate manganese.. The method can efficiently separate the valuable elements of nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium, and has the advantages of low
energy consumption, short process, low cost, environmental friendliness and the like.