The invention discloses a method for recovering high-quality
germanium concentrate from scrapped glass optical fibers, and belongs to the technical field of rare
metal recovery. Crushing and screening the scrapped glass
optical fiber to obtain
optical fiber powder; the
optical fiber powder and NaOH or Na2CO3 are uniformly mixed, the
molar ratio of NaSi to NaGe of the mixture is (3-6): 1, and
roasting is conducted for 2-4 h at the temperature of 500-800 DEG C; mixing the roasted material with water according to a
solid-to-
liquid ratio of 1: (4-10), heating to 50-100 DEG C, stirring and dissolving to generate a leaching solution; after filtering, feeding the filtered
clear liquid into a spraying device filled with adsorption resin from an inlet of the device at the temperature of 5-40 DEG C and the flow speed of 5-50mm / min; and feeding an inorganic acid
desorption agent into a spraying device from an outlet of the device at the temperature of 50-80 DEG C and the flow speed of 10-100mm / min, collecting the desorbed liquid, and adding water which is 3-5 times of the theoretical
hydrolysis amount to obtain the
germanium concentrate. The method is simple in technological process, low in
energy consumption and high in
metal direct
recovery rate, the
germanium mass content of the enriched germanium concentrate is larger than 40%, the germanium
recovery rate is larger than 92%, the main component obtained after germanium recovery is
sodium silicate, and multiple benefits of resources, economy, environment and the like are achieved.