The invention discloses a dry
recovery method for waste
indium-
gallium targets, which comprises the following steps of: crushing the waste
indium-
gallium targets to obtain waste target particles; the waste target particles and a carbonaceous
reducing agent are mixed and added into a reduction furnace to be subjected to a carbon thermal reduction reaction, liquid
indium gallium alloy is obtained, then a
sodium hydroxide solution is added to be stirred and precipitated, then
solid-liquid separation is conducted, a
sodium gallate solution and indium-rich
metal are obtained, the indium-rich
metal is subjected to electrolytic refining, and high-purity refined indium is obtained; the
sodium gallate solution is subjected to acidification,
impurity removal and hydrolytic
precipitation, and gallium
hydroxide powder is obtained. The indium-
gallium alloy is directly obtained through the carbon thermal reduction reaction, so that
metal loss caused by multi-step leaching, separation, replacement and other processes in a wet process is avoided, and the
recovery rate is increased; a large amount of strong acid, strong base and organic extractant are not needed, the auxiliary
material consumption is small, the price is low,
wastewater discharge is reduced, and the
recovery cost is reduced; liquid indium
gallium alloy passes through the liquid outlet in the bottom of the reduction furnace, full-continuous or semi-continuous
batch production is achieved, and the recovery efficiency is high.