A process for the purification of the obtained by wet digestion by means of extraction solution phosphoric acid

摘要

Wet process phosphoric acid may be purified by solvent extraction to produce a product of greater purity and concentration than has hitherto been attainable by employing an acyclic hexanone, preferably methyl isobutyl ketone as the solvent. Preferably the extraction of the acid into the ketone and the release into water are carried out in 2 actual or theoretical counter - current stages. Alternatively the release may be carried out into an aqueous solution of a base.