Process for treating fats and oils

A process comprising:

• (i) feeding a pre-treated oil feed stream to a vacuum steam stripping section, stripping off volatile phases;
• (ii) feeding the stripped off the volatile phases to a first condensation stage or to a combination of a first condensation stage and a second condensation stage, obtaining a condensed phase and a vapour phase, transferring the condensed phase to a vacuum distillation operation and transferring the vapour phase to a third condensation stage, wherein the first condensation stage has a higher temperature than the second condensation stage and wherein the second condensation stage has a higher temperature than the third condensation stage;
• (iii) subjecting the condensed phase to said vacuum distillation operation, and obtaining a first distillate and a stream of volatiles;
• (iv) feeding the vapour phase from the first condensation stage or the vapour phase from the combination of a first condensation stage and the second condensation stage, along with the stream of volatiles from the vacuum distillation operation to the third condensation stage, obtaining a stream of non-condensable gases and a second distillate, feeding the stream of non-condensable gases to a vacuum system;
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• (v) recovering from the vacuum steam stripping section a stream of refined oils.