Process for apparatus for the recovery of fats and oils

A continuous process for the recovery of fats and oils from oil fruits and oil seeds, wherein oil fruits and oil seeds having a maximum particle diameter of 10 mm are cleaned, are immediately thereafter pressed cold in a screw press without mechanical conditioning to form a pressed cake that is then extracted;

• comprising the improvement of pressing cleaned oil fruit and oil seed particles in a screw press that discharges directly into an extraction apparatus, said screw press forming a pressure-stable, gas-tight pressed cake plug that is continuously renewed during pressing, continuously extracting the pressed cake immediately after pressing in said extraction apparatus with a supercritical gas solvent selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, ethene, ethane, propane, nitrous oxide, trifluoromethane, nitrogen, argon and a combination of two or more thereof, in countercurrent flow at a temperature of from 20.degree. to 110.degree. C. and at a pressure of from 150 to 750 bar for a time period of from 0.5 to 2.5 hours, with the solvent ratio lying between 5 and 30 kg solvent per 1 kg pressed cake, and separating the extracted fats and oils from the solvent by reducing the pressure and/or changing the temperature.