The invention provides a separation and extraction method for valuable metals in
electroplating sludge, and belongs to the technical field of
solid waste recycling. The
electroplating sludge is
copper-containing
electroplating sludge, and the method comprises the following steps: mixing dehydrated and dried electroplating sludge with an
organic acid solid auxiliary agent, carrying out gradient weak reduction pretreatment, cooling, and carrying out
magnetic separation to remove iron; adding
ammonia water to react, separating
solid waste and collecting an
ammonia-containing complex solution; adjusting the pH value to 9-10, carrying out
distillation deamination at 60-70 DEG C, carrying out gas-solid waste separation, precipitating to obtain a
copper hydroxide crude product, and dissolving the
nickel element in the residual liquid; adjusting the pH value of the residual liquid to 10-11, carrying out two-stage
distillation deamination, and precipitating to obtain a
nickel hydroxide crude product; and purifying the
copper hydroxide crude product and the
nickel hydroxide crude product to obtain a
copper hydroxide refined product and a nickel hydroxide refined product. According to the method, the dried electroplating sludge is mixed with the solid
organic acid, reduction pretreatment is carried out under the conditions of different atmospheres and different temperatures, the
ammonia complexing and graded
deamination processes are combined, efficient
recovery of copper and nickel is achieved, and the purity of the recovered
metal is high.