Abstract: A method for recovering waste lithium battery materials, comprising: (1) performing cell-disassembling on a waste lithium battery to obtain battery powder, ammonia leaching the battery powder to obtain a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to solid-liquid separation to obtain a leached solution and a filter residue; (2) adding a fluorine-phosphorus precipitating agent to the leached solution to obtain a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to solid-liquid separation to obtain a filtrate; (3) subjecting the filtrate to ammonia distillation, subjecting a mixture obtained to solid-liquid separation to obtain a filtrate and a filter residue containing basic copper carbonate and lithium carbonate; (4) washing the filter residue with water, and separating the basic copper carbonate to obtain a washing water; (5) reducing and calcining the filter residue, washing the residue, adding the washing water to the residue to collect lithium by water leaching, and filtering a mixture to obtain a filtrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of lithium ion battery recovery and discloses a method for selectively recovering valuable metals in waste lithium batteries. The method includes the following steps: adding a sulfur-containing compound to waste lithium battery for calcination and water leaching to obtain lithium carbonate solution and filter residue; adding sulfuric acid and an iron-containing compound to the filter residue for leaching, performing solid-liquid separation, and taking solid phase to obtain manganese dioxide and graphite residue; extracting and reverse extracting liquid phase from the solid-liquid separation to obtain nickel cobalt sulfate solution and manganese sulfate solution. The method of the present disclosure selectively extracts lithium in waste ternary cathode materials by calcination and water leaching, and realizes selective low manganese leaching based on the principle that divalent manganese can reduce the high oxide of nickel and cobalt in the leaching stage.