This disclosure discloses an extraction column for metal separation in an acid leaching solution of laterite nickel ore, and an extraction process thereof. The extraction column includes an extraction column tube body and a gas distribution device; an interior of the extraction column tube body is provided with an accommodating cavity for containing a continuous phase and a dispersed phase, the continuous phase and the dispersed phase are in countercurrent contact in the accommodating cavity; and the extraction column tube body is connected with the gas distribution device to make the gas distribution device pass gas into the accommodating cavity. The gas distribution device is used to control a pipe diameter of a gas outlet of the gas distribution device in a suitable range. Using turbulent effect of bubbles floating in a liquid phase, collisions and shears of the dispersed phase form dispersed phase droplets with suitable sizes.

This disclosure discloses an extraction column for metal separation in an acid leaching solution of laterite nickel ore, and an extraction process thereof. The extraction column includes an extraction column tube body and a gas distribution device; an interior of the extraction column tube body is provided with an accommodating cavity for containing a continuous phase and a dispersed phase, the continuous phase and the dispersed phase are in countercurrent contact in the accommodating cavity; and the extraction column tube body is connected with the gas distribution device to make the gas distribution device pass gas into the accommodating cavity. The gas distribution device is used to control a pipe diameter of a gas outlet of the gas distribution device in a suitable range. Using turbulent effect of bubbles floating in a liquid phase, collisions and shears of the dispersed phase form dispersed phase droplets with suitable sizes.

A process and an installation wherein a ternary system including an aqueous acidic solution, an organic solvent not miscible with water and a thermosensitive hydrotropic agent is used to selectively extract tantalum and optionally niobium by cycling extraction between low-temperature single-phase and high temperature two phase regions in the ternary phase prism far from the critical point.

A process and an installation wherein a ternary system including an aqueous acidic solution, an organic solvent not miscible with water and a thermosensitive hydrotropic agent is used to selectively extract tantalum and optionally niobium by cycling extraction between low-temperature single-phase and high temperature two phase regions in the ternary phase prism far from the critical point.