Preparation of High Purity Lead Oxide from Spent Lead Acid Batteries via Desulfurization and Recrystallization in Sodium Hydroxide

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• 作者：Junqing Pan ; Xuan Zhang ; Yanzhi Sun ; Shuang Song ; Wei Li ; Pingyu Wan
• 刊名：Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 24, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：55
• 期：7
• 页码：2059-2068
• 全文大小：607K
• ISSN：1520-5045

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This paper reports a new method of direct recovery of highly pure lead oxide (PbO) from waste lead pastes and lead grids of spent lead–acid batteries via catalytic conversion, desulfurization, and recrystallization processes in sequence. On the basis of the analytical results of lead (Pb) and lead dioxide (PbO₂) contents in the scrap lead paste, a certain amount of waste lead grid was used as a reductant to transform the excess PbO₂ into lead sulfate (PbSO₄). This paper systematically studies the influence of the concentration of sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) and catalyst and the reaction temperature on the catalytic process. The desulfurization of the obtained PbSO₄ and the recrystallization of PbO in sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solutions of different concentrations are also investigated. Furthermore, electrochemical experimental results show that the prepared α-PbO with high purity provides slightly superior electrochemical performance to the existing lead oxide obtained by the Shimadzu ball-milling method during the first 350 charge–discharge cycles in the cycling test.