The invention relates to a resource recycling method of waste battery
cathode materials. The resource recycling method comprises the following steps: performing high-temperature calcinating to the waste battery
cathode materials so as to separate active
powder in the
cathode materials from
aluminum foil; dissolving the obtained active
powder into acid solution, and then filtering to obtain filtrate; determining the concentration of
metal ions in the filtrate, and correspondingly supplementing
nickel and / or
cobalt and / or
manganese ions into the solution, so that the
molar concentration ratio of
nickel,
cobalt and
manganese ions is 1:1:1; adding
sodium hydroxide into the prepared
nickel,
cobalt and
manganese mixture solution, and heating to lead the nickel, cobalt and manganese ions to be co-precipitated, then filtering the precipitate and washing and
drying to obtain a nickel-cobalt-manganese precursor; adding
sodium carbonate into the filtrate obtained in the step IV, and reacting to obtain
lithium carbonate precipitate, filtering, washing and
drying the
lithium carbonate precipitate, to obtain
lithium carbonate
powder; and mixing the nickel-cobalt-manganese precursor with the
lithium carbonate powder, and calcinating to obtain the lithium nickel cobalt manganese cathode materials. A ternary
cathode material is prepared by resource recycling ofvarious battery materials, and batteries produced from the ternary
cathode material are lower in cost, higher in
electric capacity and better in performance compared with single cobalt-lithium batteries, manganese-lithium batteries and nickel-lithium batteries.