The invention relates to a method for recycling
tellurium from
tellurium anode slime. By adopting the technical scheme, the method comprises the steps that firstly,
distilled water is used for washing
tellurium anode slime,
hydrogen peroxide is used for completely oxidizing uncleaned Na2TeO3 into Na2TeO4, then,
sulfuric acid is slowly added into the tellurium
anode slime to leach out tellurium, filtering is performed to obtain a tellurium leaching agent, Na2SO3 is used for reducing Te6+ into crude tellurium
powder, then, a saltpeter solution is adopted for dissolving the crude tellurium
powder, tellurium electrodeposition regularly-discharged
liquid waste or tellurium anode mud washing water is added into the solution for
neutralization, the pH value of the reaction endpoint is controlled to 5-6, tellurium is totally converted into
tellurium dioxide, impurities are removed from the neutralized solution, finally, the
tellurium dioxide is dissolved through the tellurium electrodeposition
liquid waste, the
solution composition is adjusted to meet the requirement of electrodeposition new liquid compositions, and the solution is returned to the electrodeposition process to produce refined tellurium.
Tellurium in anode mud produced by tellurium electrodeposition can be supplemented in time for performing process production tellurium refining, the
resource utilization efficiency is improved, the technology is reasonable, operation and implementation are easy, and the tellurium
recovery rate is high.