The invention provides a method for recovering valuable elements through reduction
smelting of
neodymium iron
boron waste and
electronic waste, which comprises the following steps: proportioning powdery
neodymium iron
boron waste, fine granular
electronic waste, a
slag former and a
solid reducing agent, and carrying out reduction
smelting on the mixture by using a top-blown
smelting furnace; by controlling the conditions of the reduction process,
copper and iron oxides in the mixed material are reduced into
metal copper and
metal iron, the
metal copper and the metal iron are gathered with gold, silver and other rare and precious metals in the
electronic waste to form a copper-iron
precious metal alloy,
rare earth oxides are not reduced and reserved in a
slag layer, and the density of copper-iron
precious metal alloy particles is larger than that of
rare earth slag; according to the method, the
rare earth slag is separated from the metal port and the slag port, the rare earth slag rapidly descends in the slag layer and sinks to the bottom of the furnace, copper-iron
precious metal alloy melt and the rare earth slag are discharged from the metal port and the slag port respectively after standing layering, finally, synchronous
recovery of rare earth in
neodymium iron
boron waste and copper, gold and silver in electronic waste can be achieved, and the method is short in process and low in
energy consumption and has good economic and environment-friendly benefits.