3. Conclusion

Although the principle of liquid-liquid extraction is very simple, there are many physico-chemical phenomena that govern the transfer of matter between two immiscible liquid phases. This series of articles aims to make the reader aware of the existence of such phenomena, and to show how they can be exploited to optimize an extraction system from the physical chemist's point of view. More specific questions relating to the industrial implementation of liquid-liquid extraction processes, and in particular the choice of equipment, are covered in Liquid-liquid extraction – Column modeling [J2765] and Liquid-liquid...