CRC Press Food Process Engineering: Safety Assurance and Complements

Food Process Engineering: Safety Assurance and Complements pursues a logical sequence of coverage of industrial processing of food and raw material where safety and complementary issues are germane. Measures to guarantee food safety are addressed at start, and the most relevant intrinsic and extrinsic factors are reviewed, followed by description of unit operations that control microbial activity via the supply of heat supply or the removal of heat. Operations prior and posterior are presented, as is the case of handling, cleaning, disinfection and rinsing, and effluent treatment and packaging, complemented by a brief introduction to industrial utilities normally present in a food plant. Key Features: Overviews the technological issues encompassing properties of food products Provides comprehensive mathematical simulation of food processes Analyzes the engineering of foods at large, and safety and complementary operations in particular, with systematic derivation of all relevant formulae Discusses equipment features required by the underlying processes About the Author F. Xavier Malcata was born in Malange (Angola) in 1963. He earned a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering (5-year program) from the College of Engineering, University of Oporto (Portugal) in 1986; a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering/Food Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW), in 1991; and a Habilitation/Professorship degree in Food Science and Engineering from the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) in 2004. During his outstanding career in teaching and research, Prof. Malcata has held academic appointments as: Teaching Assistant at UCP (1985–1987) and UW (1988);  Lecturer at UW (1989); Assistant Professor at UCP (1991–1998); Associate Professor at UCP (1998–2004);  and Full Professor at UCP (2004–2010), Instituto Superior da Maia (2010–2012), and University of Oporto (2012–). His teaching responsibilities have encompassed (among others) thermodynamics, transfer phenomena, fluid mechanics, system dynamics and control, applied biochemistry, enzyme engineering, bioprocess engineering, bioreactor technology, bioresource engineering, food technology, and industrial projects of B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Food Engineering and in Bioengineering. Prof. Malcata has held professional appointments as: Dean of the College of Biotechnology of UCP (1998–2008) – with major responsibilities for the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Food Engineering; President of the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology (2003–2008); Coordinator of the Northern Chapter of Chemical Engineering, and Funding Member of the Specialization in Food Engineering of the Portuguese Engineering Accreditation Board (2004–2009); Official Delegate of the Portuguese Government to the VI and VII Framework R&D Programs of the European Union, in the key areas of Food Quality and Safety (2004–2006) and Food, Agriculture, and Biotechnology (2006–2013); and Chief Executive Officer of the nonprofit University/Industry Extension Associations AESBUC (1998–2008) and INTERVIR+ (2006–2008), and the nonprofit Entrepreneurial Biotechnological Support Associations CiDEB (2005–2008) and INOVAR&CRESCER (2006–2008). He has been the recipient of several international distinctions and awards, namely: election for membership in Phi Tau Sigma (honor society of Food Science) in 1990, Sigma Xi (honor society of scientific and engineering research) in 1990, Tau Beta Pi (honor society of engineering) in 1991, and New York Academy of Sciences in 1992; the Cristiano P. Spratley Award in 1985 and the Centennial Award in 1986, by the University of Oporto; the Ralph H. Potts Memorial Award in 1991, the Young Scientist Research Award in 2001, and election as Fellow in 2014, by the American Oil Chemists’ Society; the Foundation Scholar Award – Dairy Foods Division in 1998, the Danisco International Dairy Science Award in 2007, the Distinguished Service Award in 2012, election as Fellow in 2013, a