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An improved process for the refining of crude oil selected from the group of fats, animal and vegetable oils. The crude oil is reacted with aqueous alkali to produce a treated oil with reduced acidic content but containing finely dispersed, liquid-state alkali metal soaps, and a bulk aqueous alkali phase. The bulk alkali phase is separated from the treated oil. The treated oil is subjected to electrofiltration by passage through a bed of dielectric particulate solids having open continuous, but tortuous flow paths, which are interposed within a d.c. electric field having a gradient of at least 20 kv/in whereby the alkali metal soaps adhere in a liquid state to the particulate solids and provide a purified oil with a substantially reduced content of the alkali metal soaps. The purified oil is sent to a subsequent utilization. A dielectric wash liquid is periodically flowed through the bed to remove the priorly adhering finely dispersed alkali metal soaps from the particulate solids.
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