The invention discloses a cylinder type centrifugal extractor. The centrifugal extractor comprises a motor, a transmission system, a rotating shaft, an auxiliary support, a mixing chamber, a light-phase outlet, a light-phase inlet, a heavy-phase outlet, a heavy-phase inlet, a sandwich layer, an annular impeller, a feeding impeller, a rack, a light-phase weir plate, a heavy-phase weir plate, a light-phase collecting chamber and a heavy-phase collecting chamber, wherein one end of the transmission system is connected with the motor, and the other end of the transmission system is connected with the top of the rotating shaft of a rotor drum; the bottom of the rotating shaft of the rotor drum is provided with the auxiliary support; the bottom of the rotor drum is provided with a baffle plate; the feeding impeller is arranged under the central position of the bottom of the rotor drum; the mixing chamber is arranged below the rotor drum; both the periphery and the bottom of the mixing chamber are provided with mixing baffle plates; the heavy-phase inlet and the light-phase inlet are respectively formed in the two ends of the bottom of the mixing chamber; the exterior of the rotor drum is provided with the sandwich layer, the light-phase collecting chamber and the heavy-phase collecting chamber from the inside out. The cylinder type centrifugal extractor has the advantages that entrainment is reduced, the extraction flux is increased, an extraction separation effect is good, the production efficiency is high, and the like.