The invention provides a process for refining battery-grade
nickel sulfate from crude
nickel sulfate. The process comprises the following steps: dissolving crude
nickel sulfate with high-temperature water according to a certain ratio, carrying out
solid-liquid separation to remove a part of
calcium and
magnesium impurities in crude nickel sulfate in a
precipitation form, adjusting the pH value ofa solution obtained after water
dissolution to a proper value by using
calcium hydroxide, allowing iron to form an iron
hydroxide precipitate and allowing
calcium to form a calcium sulfate precipitate; according to different
precipitation coefficients of sulfides of
arsenic,
copper,
zinc and nickel, adding a certain amount of
sodium hydrosulfide to enable
copper sulfide,
arsenic sulfide and
zinc sulfide precipitates to be formed in the solution so as to remove
impurity elements including
copper,
arsenic and
zinc; adding
sodium fluoride with a certain excess coefficient into a sulfurized solution to form calcium
fluoride and
magnesium fluoride precipitates and a fluorinated solution; adding
sodium carbonate into the fluorinated solution to adjust a pH value, thereby forming a
nickel carbonate precipitate and
wastewater; adding dilute
sulfuric acid with a certain concentration into
nickel carbonate to partially dissolve the
nickel carbonate so as to form a pure nickel sulfate solution and undissolved nickel
carbonate, wherein the nickel sulfate solution is neutral, the undissolved nickel
carbonate returns to a dissolving procedure, and subjecting the nickel sulfate solution to high-temperature
evaporation crystallization to obtain battery-grade nickel sulfate meeting national standards in China.