Palladium in the waste palladium on carbon catalys was examined by air acetylene flame atomic absorption spectrometry in hydrochloric acid medium through wet processing samples ,removing carbon u-sing H2 SO4 + HNO3 smoking from samples ,reduction by methane acid and dissolving samples by chloro-azotic acid .The results show that the recovery ratio is between 98, and 102, and the relative standard deviation is less than 3, ,which are consistent with the results of fire restoring and the fire assay .