Solvent extraction is an efficient, economical and widely-used technology for the purification of wet process phosphoric acid (WPA). This present work focused on the development of a solvent extraction system, TC, representing tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) and cyclohexanol mixtures. The equilibrium phase diagram of the system H 3 PO 4 −H 2 O−TC at 298.2 K and atmospheric pressure was obtained. The effects of extraction time, phosphoric acid concentration, extractant concentration, temperature and phase volume ratio on extraction efficiency were studied. The extracted complexes were estimated to be 1.8H 3 PO 4 2TC. The extraction process of H 3 PO 4 was exothermic and the enthalpy change, ΔH, was obtained. The solvent mixtures had a high efficiency for phosphoric acid purification via multi-stage counter-current extraction from the industrial WPA in a reciprocating plate extraction column with an H 3 PO 4 extraction yield of 85.08 % at 313.2 K. The stability, extraction efficiency and recycling capability of TC for H 3 PO 4 extraction were also estimated.