The invention discloses a
pickling apparatus, a
pickling method, and a
quartz sand preparation method, and belongs to the technical field of
quartz sand preparation. The apparatus comprises a raw acid
barrel, a complex acid
barrel, a
wastewater treatment structure, a selective conveying structure, an acid
recovery structure, a
pickling barrel and a visual device. The raw acid barrel, the complex acid barrel, the pickling barrel, the visual device and the selective conveying structure are sequentially connected, the output end of the selective conveying structure is only communicated with the input end of the acid
recovery structure when the foaming time in the visual device is less than a predetermined value, and the output end of the selective conveying structure is only communicated with the
wastewater treatment structure when the foaming time in the visual device is not less than a predetermined value; and the output end of the acid
recovery structure is connected with the complex acid barrel, an acid in the complex acid barrel can be directly output to the pickling barrel when the concentration of
hydrochloric acid in the complex acid barrel is greater than 16 Baume gravities, and the complex acid barrel is communicated with the raw acid barrel to make the concentration of
hydrochloric acid in a range of 20-22 Baume gravities when the concentration of
hydrochloric acid in the complex acid barrel is not greater than 16 Baume gravities. The pickling apparatus, the pickling method and the
quartz sand preparation method allow 98% of hydrochloric acid to be recovered, the
wastewater emission to be reduced and the wastewater treatment cost to be reduced.