Following the work on gas lift reactor (Pachuca tank) for gas-liquid-suspended solid 3-phase reaction,multideck gas lift reactors have been developed.This type of reactor has many unique advantages suchas realization of counter-current operation between gas and slurry,reduction of gas consumption and lower-ing of the amount of volatile components of the liquid which has to be recovered from the exit gas.The stability of the overflow tube of the reactor was studied.A semiempirical equation was derived tocalculate the flooding point of the reactor.The operating range of the overflow tube was also deter-mined.This multideck reactor has been operated successfully in a pilot plant of ammonia leaching of copperore.Results agree reasonably well with those predicted from small scale batch experiments.The extractionof vanadium from soda roasted steel slag in a 5-deck reactor with carbon dioxide in the gas phase wasalso satisfactory.Experimental results obtained from the continuous flow 5-deck reactor and those calcu-lated from batch experimental data with CSTR model were in agreement. Following the work on gas lift reactor (Pachuca tank) for gas-liquid-suspended solid 3-phase reaction, multideck gas lift reactors have been developed. This type of reactor has many unique advantages suchas realization of counter-current operation between gas and slurry , reduction of gas consumption and lower-ing of the amount of volatile components of the liquid which has to be recovered from the exit gas. the stability of the overflow tube of the reactor was studied. A semiempirical equation was derived tocalculate the flooding point of the reactor. The operating range of the overflow tube was also deter-mined. This multideck reactor has been operated successfully in a pilot plant of ammonia leaching of copper ore. Results agree reasonably well with those predicted from small scale batch experiments. The extraction of vanadium from soda roasted steel slag in a 5-deck reactor with carbon dioxide in the gas phase wasalso satisfactory. Experimental results obtained from the continuous flow 5-deck r eactor and those calcu-lated from batch experimental data with CSTR model were in agreement.