“…Compared with traditional smelting methods, vacuum metallurgical technology has some advantages: efficient resource utilization, high metal recovery rate, short metallurgical process, low energy consumption, good working conditions, and considerable economic benefits. It does not generate pollutants, such as waste gas, waste water, waste residue, and other contaminants [23][24][25][26]. This study, therefore, explored a novel vacuum method to recycle tellurium from TLAS, mainly adopting: (1) elucidate the element composition and occurrence state of TLAS, distilled residue, and volatile; (2) analyze the separation and recovery effects in terms of each pure substance and oxide's saturated vapor pressure in TLAS; (3) explore the distribution rule of tellurium in the vacuum gasification-directional condensation process.…”