The invention discloses a method for recovering
lithium and transition elements in waste
lithium battery positive material by a
liquid phase method. The method comprises the following steps that (1) the waste
lithium battery is subjected to discharging treatment, the disassembled waste
lithium battery is placed in a negative pressure environment for
drying, and a dried positive plate for removingelectrolyte is obtained; (2) the dried positive plate is putted into low eutectic
solvent, and active substances in the positive plate is dissolved in a high-temperature environment to obtain the reaction solution; (3) the reaction solution obtained in step (2) is filtered, washed, a
filter cake is dried, collecting fluid, binder agent and conductive agent are obtained, the
reducing agent is addedinto obtained filtrate, adjusting the obtained filtrate to be alkaline, and
metal ions in the filtrate are reduced and precipitated; and (4) the filtrate containing precipitate in step (3) is filtered after the reduction reaction, the
filter cake is dried and the transition elements are obtained, and the lithium element is obtained by means of extraction,
precipitation,
ion exchange and the like.The method is high in selectivity, high in
leaching rate, simple to operate, low in cost, low in
energy consumption, safe and environment-friendly.