Food Process Engineering

Unlike other textbooks that provide sequential studies on various types of processing, this book entails a problem-oriented approach, focusing on the product rather than the operation.

F. Xavier Malcata was born in Mélange, Angola, in 1963. He received a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oporto, Portugal, in 1986, a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering / Food Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1991 and a Habilitation/Professorship degree in Food Science and Engineering from the Portuguese Catholic University in 2004. Dr. Malcata is currently a Professor of Food Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior da Maia in Maia, Portugal.