The invention discloses a method and a device for extracting
lithium, which is used for preparing
lithium carbonate, from a lapidolite ore by a chloridizing
roasting method. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, mixing the lapidolite ore,
calcium chloride and
sodium hydroxide with a compound bonding agent for pellet fabrication; secondly, performing chloridizing
roasting in a square-frame shaped track type
roasting furnace; thirdly, leaching out
soot dust by using solution containing
sodium carbonate and
potassium carbonate to ensure that
potassium,
sodium,
rubidium and cesium enter the solution and convert the
lithium into
lithium carbonate; fourthly, filtering the mixture to obtain a
lithium carbonate solid, and circularly using the filtrated
mother liquor to leach out the
soot dust; fifthly, when an
alkali metal salt is close to be saturated, indirectly heating the filtrated
mother liquor by using the residual heat of the gas in the roasting furnace to evaporate part of water; sixthly, passing CO2 into the filtrated
mother liquor to perform
carbonation; and seventhly, performing cooling
crystallization to separate out a mixed salt of the
sodium carbonate and the
potassium carbonate, returning part of the mixed salt which is used as an auxiliary material mixed and roasted with lapidolite for cyclic utilization, using another part of the mixed salt as a carbonate
reagent needed in
dissolution, and using the rest part of the mixed salt as byproducts of the
sodium carbonate and the
potassium carbonate. The method has the advantages of high lithium
recovery rate, good material comprehensive utilization, large equipment productivity, high production efficiency, small
water consumption in the process and less
wastewater discharge.