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The Handbook makes an essential reading for all students and teachers professionals researchers and industrialists company executives and managers dealing with fats and oils. It aims to be an effective management tool and a handy aid for managing the projects. It is expected to serve as a valuable source of information for all associated with the fat and oil technology chemical engineering food processing and food service industries. The Handbook contains valuable and necessary information on preparation properties applications and analysis of various oils and fats. Oils and fats constitute a major class of food products comprising essential nutrients of the human diet serving as concentrated source of energy. Processed foods such as dairy products margarine snacks prefried poultry peanut butter coffee whiteners contain significant quantities of oils and fats. About the Author S. C. Bhatia is a Chemical Engineer with Management qualifications. He has worked in leading petrochemical industries in the production and quality control units with many years of sincere hard work to his credit. A prolific writer and dedicated researcher he found time to author numerous books on chemical and allied subjects such as solvents industrial oils and petrochemicals. His books fruition of painstaking scholarship have been widely acclaimed. Actively associated with plastic and rubber industry he has participated in many seminars related to rubber plastics and environmental sciences. He has specialized in air and water pollution energy conservation rubber plastics and various other petrochemical fields. He is currently a consultant for matters relating to pollution energy conservation which reveals his concern about the hazards endangering the environment.