Received Date:2025-08-30 Revised Date:2025-11-03 Accepted Date:2025-11-05
In recent years, sodium-ion batteries have attracted much attention due to their low cost, high safety, and excellent low-temperature performance. Among these materials, Prussian blue-based cathode materials show great potential for development due to their high energy density. However, there is currently no applicable technology worldwide for recycling valuable resources and zero-discharge treatment of wastewater from the production of Prussian blue-based cathode materials. After confirming the poor performance of traditional technologies, this study proposes a novel process characterized by "targeted precipitation–multi-membrane synergy–directional recycling" to enable resource recovery and zero-discharge treatment of wastewater, involving two metathesis reactions and a two-stage membrane filtration process. In the first metathesis reaction, calcium chloride is used as a precipitating agent to react with sodium sulfate and sodium citrate in the wastewater. The optimal dosage of calcium chloride is determined to be 21 mg/mL through single-factor experiments. After solid-liquid separation, a filtrate containing sodium ferrocyanide and a mixed filter residue composed of calcium sulfate and calcium citrate are obtained. In the second metathesis reaction, sodium carbonate is used as a conversion agent for the mixed filter residue. The optimal conditions are: a sodium carbonate to calcium citrate ratio of 3:1, 25% sodium carbonate solution, pH 10.5, a reaction temperature of 75 ℃, and reaction time 30 – 40 min. The filtrate then undergoes two-stage membrane filtration, during which ferrocyanide and chloride ions are effectively retained by the membranes. Among them, sodium ferrocyanide is recycled as a raw material in the production of Prussian blue cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries, while the remaining solution is treated by reverse osmosis to remove sodium ions, and the resulting purified water is reused. Meanwhile, the filter residue containing calcium sulfate and calcium citrate is repeatedly washed and separated to yield a residue mainly composed of calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate. Finally, the filtrate is evaporated and crystallized to yield a white powder mainly composed of sodium citrate. The recovery rate of sodium citrate reaches over 99.6%, and sodium ferrocyanide can be directly reused in the production process under the optimized conditions. This work is expected to provide essential data and a methodological guidance for resource recovery and zero-discharge wastewater treatment in the production of Prussian blue cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries.
Close-ZHANG Xihua, LI Gaoxiang, SONG Yujia, HOU Wei, HU Shaorong, ZHUANG Xuning, SONG Xiaolong. Resource Recovery and Zero-Discharge of Prussian Blue Cathode Material Production Wastewater[J/OL]. Energy Environmental Protectio: 1-10[2025-11-26]. https://doi.org/10.20078/j.eep.20251107.