The invention discloses a device and a method for producing refined
tellurium. The device comprises an electrodeposition tank, a low-position circulating
liquid tank, a circulating liquid pump, a precision filter, a high-position circulating
liquid tank and a
rectifier which are communicated according to a connection relation. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out wet ball milling on
tellurium slag and water, pumping obtained
slurry into a leaching kettle, adding water for
dilution, then adding industrial-grade
sodium sulfide for reaction, and filtering to obtain a purified solution; raising the temperature of the purified liquid, adding dilute sulphuric acid for
neutralization reaction, and filtering to obtain wet
tellurium dioxide; returning the wet
tellurium dioxide into the
neutralization kettle, adding hot water for repeated washing, and calcining the washed wet
tellurium dioxide into dry
tellurium dioxide; taking analytically pure
sodium sulfide, caustic soda flakes, dry tellurium dioxide and water to react, standing and precipitating after the reaction, and extracting supernatant to obtain electrodeposition liquid; filling the electrodeposition liquid into an electrodeposition
cell, starting a
rectifier, a liquid
circulating pump and a precision filter, setting current and
voltage, and starting electrodeposition; tellurium
powder, waste electrodeposition liquid and bottom impurities are produced. The problems of low tellurium electrodeposition efficiency, poor tellurium
powder quality, low electrodeposition direct
recovery rate and the like can be effectively solved.