简介：Recoveryprocessesofsecondaryresourcesusuallyencounterproblemsbecauseofthediversecompositionsofwastes.Toenhancetheapplicabilityoftraditionalhydrometallurgicalprocesstowardsecondaryresources,theadjustmentofcomponentsisnecessary.Intraditionalhydrometallurgicalseparation,precipitationandcomplexationareextensivelyused.However,theircombinationasaspecificmetalseparationmethodhasnotyetbeenstudiedindetail.Thisapproachisverypromisingforsolvingproblemscausedbychangeablecomponentsduringrecyclingprocessesofsecondaryresources.Thispaperreviewstheeffectsofprecipitationandcomplexationinmetalseparationprocesses,andametalseparationmethodsystemof‘‘complexation–precipitation’’developedtoadjustthecomponentsofsecondaryresourcesisintroduced.