The invention provides a method for recovering nonferrous metals, rare and noble metals and
iron powder from
steelmaking flue dust. The method comprises the following steps: mixing the
steelmaking flue dust with a chlorination agent and a
reducing agent, adding the obtained mixture to a tunnel furnace, and carrying out a two-stage reaction, wherein a primary stage reaction is a medium temperature chlorination reaction and allows nonferrous metals and precious metals to volatilize and enter
flue gas, the
flue gas is used as a
nonferrous metal and
precious metal extraction
raw material after dusts are collected, and a
secondary stage reaction is a high temperature reduction reaction and reduces iron into
elemental iron which is discharged with
kiln slag; and carrying out cooling, crushing and ball milling on the
kiln slag to form a
slag slurry with the
granularity being smaller than 60 meshes, and carrying out
magnetic separation to obtain the
elemental iron powder and waste slag, wherein the
iron content of the
iron powder is greater than 86%, the
iron powder can be used as commercial reduced iron
powder, and the waste slag is sold to
cement mills. The method allowing the chlorination and reduction
metallurgy processes to be carried out in the tunnel furnace in a segmental manner has the advantages of process simplification, simplicity in operation, high
thermal efficiency, low production cost and high comprehensive
utilization rate, and is a new way for reasonable
recovery of valuable metals in the
steelmaking flue dust and high-efficiency
resource utilization.