Abstract:From the perspective of environmental protection, the state puts forward suggestions for improving to the traditional vanadium slag extraction process. The new process requires full extraction of vanadium and chromium from the vanadium slag, so that the chromium content in the leaching residue is as low as possible. According to thermodynamic calculation, it is found that chromium is more difficult to extract than vanadium under the same conditions, and the effect of adding Mg (OH)2 to extract chromium is better than that of adding MgO. Therefore, we studied the high-temperature oxidation roasting of vanadium slag powder and alkaline Mg (OH) 2 powder, and then extracting chromium from vanadium slag by sulfuric acid leaching. At the same time, the effects of Mg (OH)2 content, roasting temperature, roasting time and pH value of acid leaching on the extraction of chromium were studied. The extraction rate of chromium increases with the increase of alkali-slag ratio, the increase of roasting temperature, the increase of roasting time and the increases with the decrease of acid leaching pH. The results shows that the best extraction rate of chromium is 63% when the roasting temperature is 1000℃, the ratio of alkali to slag is 1.0, the roasting time is 2 h, and the acid leaching pH is 0.1.