The invention belongs to the technical field of
hydrometallurgy, and particularly relates to a method for separating
nickel and
cobalt from a
nickel-containing solution and preparing
nickel salt, which comprises the following steps: 1) chelating and precipitating
impurity metal ions in the nickel-containing solution by using
ammonium polyphosphate with the
polymerization degree of more than 1000 as an
impurity removal agent, thereby removing
copper, iron,
zinc and aluminum to obtain an
impurity-removed solution; 2) extracting the impurity-removed solution by using a
diluent, alpha-hydroxyoxime,
carboxylic acid and
alkyl alcohol as an extraction organic phase to obtain a nickel-loaded organic phase; 3) washing the nickel-loaded organic phase by using nickel-containing washing water; and (4) reverse extraction is conducted on the washed nickel-loaded organic phase through reverse extraction liquid containing acid and
nickel ions, nickel-rich liquid is obtained after reverse extraction is completed,
nickel salt in the nickel-rich liquid is crystallized, and
nickel salt solids are obtained after phase separation. According to the method, nickel is selectively extracted through the compound extraction
system after impurity removal, the extraction rate of nickel reaches up to 99.8%, nickel is separated from
metal ions such as
cobalt and
lithium, and the method is simple in process, low in equipment manufacturing cost and low in manufacturing cost.