The invention belongs to the technical field of
precious metal recovery, and particularly relates to a method for recovering
platinum group
metal through one-step
smelting of a waste automobile catalyst and iron
tailings for electric furnace
steelmaking. The method comprises the following steps: (1) uniformly mixing the waste automobile catalyst, the iron
tailings for electric furnace
steelmaking, a carbon
reducing agent and a
slag former in proportion, putting the mixture into an
alumina crucible, and directly putting the
alumina crucible into a high-temperature furnace, wherein the
mass ratio of the waste automobile catalyst to the iron
tailings for electric furnace
steelmaking is (30-55): (45-70); and (2) volatile
moisture removal, in-situ reduction of
iron oxide and
slag-
metal separation operation are continuously completed in the same furnace body through pre-
roasting at the temperature of 800-950 DEG C in the first section and
smelting at the temperature of 1450-1550 DEG C in the second section. According to the method, the
platinum group
metal is efficiently recycled through the carbon thermal reduction and melting
coupling technology, meanwhile, two kinds of dangerous
solid waste are cooperatively treated, the using amount of an additional
slag former and an iron
trapping agent is remarkably reduced, and the method has the advantages of being simple in process, high in recycling rate, excellent in economical efficiency and the like.