Process for separating and recovering selenium from selenium-containing material

The invention relates to a process for separating and recovering selenium from a selenium-containing material. The process comprises the following steps: dissolving the selenium-containing material into a sulfuric acid solution, adding 10% H2O2 into the mixture, filtering and separating to get leachate and residue containing silver, lead, copper and other valuable metals; separating the selenium from tellurium in the oxidation leachate by using sodium hydroxide; and acidifying the selenium leachate with hydrochloric acid, adding sodium sulfite to reduce the settled selenium, washing and drying to get crude selenium with the grade of not lower than 90%. The crude selenium which is separated by the process is higher in purity and can be directly refined, so that the process flow of recovering selenium is shortened, the recovery rate of selenium is improved, the production cost is reduced and the energy is saved; and the sodium sulfite is used for substituting sulfur dioxide to perform reduction, the control is easy and the environmental pollution is further reduced. The process has very important significance in both aspects of recovering resources and protecting an environment.