The invention discloses a method for efficiently recovering active materials of positive poles in waste
lithium batteries, which is mainly characterized by adding crushed electrical core fragments into hot water, stirring the mixture, and performing first vibration screening after the
filtration and
drying to separate most of an active material; dissolving
aluminum foil through alkaline leaching after an oversize part is magnetically separated, adjusting the pH value of an alkaline leaching filtrate by
dilute acid and
ammonium bicarbonate solution, and recovering aluminum; performing second vibration screening after the
filtration and
drying to separate a residual
powder material; and placing the oversize part into water for water
cyclone separation, dumping to remove an upper-layer plastic diaphragm, then using dilute
sulfuric acid and
sodium thiosulfate solution to wash a
copper sheet to ensure that carbon
powder and active
powder which are adhered to the
copper sheet are loosened and fall off, making the powder float on an upper layer through
cyclone separation after the washing, mixing the powder and the active powders obtained by two screenings, using NaOH solution to soak the mixture after the
magnetic separation, calcining the alkali-leached active powder material after the
filtration and
drying, and taking the active powder material as active powder for subsequent treatment. The use of the method can ensure that the
recovery rates of
copper and aluminum in waste
lithium ion batteries reach 98.5 percent and 97 percent respectively, and the
recovery rate of the active materials is about 99 percent.