The invention discloses a
roasting system and a
roasting method for
lithium-ore acidification by using an externally-heated type
rotary furnace, which comprises the following steps of: generating acidifying
grog through acidifying
roasting after mixing beta
lithium ores and
sulfuric acid by using the externally-heated type
rotary furnace as the core equipment of acidifying roasting reaction, and sending the acidifying
grog which is generated after acidifying roasting into a subsequent working procedure after cooling the acidifying
grog, wherein the
sulfuric acid for acidifying roasting is used after the concentration of an acid liquor after
tail gas is washed is adjusted through fuming
sulfuric acid and can also be directly prepared from concentrated sulfuric acid or fuming acid or by mixing the two acids; the
tail gas which is generated in the process of acidifying roasting is discharged with reaching standards after
acid washing and alkali washing, and most of the acidic gas in the
tail gas returns to the roasting
system along with the washing acid to be reutilized during
acid washing. The invention overcomes the defects of large tail-gas quantity, serious
pollution and the like of a traditional internally-heated type acidifying-roasting process and provides a good method for the extraction of
metallic lithium in the
lithium ores, the self-heating of the reaction is fully utilized, energy does not need to be additionally consumed after the self
reaction temperature is reached, and the energy-saving effect is remarkable.