At the present time, crystalline ammonium metatungstate is being produced from APT. Although this process overcomes some of the disadvantages of the-prior art, in practice it is somewhat difficult to control for maximum conversion. As a consequence, on crystallization of ammonium metatungstate from solution, the residual APT must be removed in order to produce completely water-soluble AMT products. Another disadvantage of this process is its intermittent batch nature, requiring baking, digesting, filtering and concentrating of solutions before crystallization. On a production scale, such stepwise operations tend to be time consuming and costly.

As an improvement over the above process, a method for producing ammonium metatungstate directly from ammonium tungstate (AT) solution is came up with. AT solution is contacted with a liquid extraction system consisting of Di-Z-ethyhexyl phosphoric acid (D-2-EHPA)-tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP)- kerosene, which extracts ammonium ion and rapidly lowers the pH to the ammonium metatungstate -forming region. The solution is then digested to allow formation of ammonium metatungstate .
While ion exchange method substantially avoids the formation of APT and is amenable to continuous processing, it has not found widespread use due to a tendency toward instability of the organic system, and resultant formation of insoluble phospho-tungstates in amounts up to percent or more of the total solid product, depending upon the conditions of formation.

Ion exchange method is an exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex. In most cases the term is used to denote the processes of purification, separation, and decontamination of aqueous and other ion-containing solutions with solid polymeric or mineralic 'ion exchangers'.

Typical ion exchangers are ion exchange resins (functionalized porous or gel polymer), zeolites, montmorillonite, clay, and soil humus. Ion exchangers are either cation exchangers that exchange positively charged ions (cations) or anion exchangers that exchange negatively charged ions (anions).

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