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Sushil Adhikari

Biosystems Engineering

Professor

Director, Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts

Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Agriculture

Interim Associate Director, AAES

216 Corley Building

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Education

Ph.D. Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University
M.S. Energy Technology, Asian Institute of Technology-Thailand
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Tribhuvan University-Nepal

Research Interests

Biomass gasification
Biomass pyrolysis
Hydrothermal liquefaction
Torrefaction
Biodiesel production

In The News

Graduate student in biosystems engineering wins university's Three Minute Thesis competition

Auburn Engineering students won first place, second place and the People's Choice Award at the annual research pitch competition.

Auburn Biosystems Engineering dominates at 2024 ASABE International Meeting

Auburn University's Department of Biosystems Engineering (BSEN) was hard to miss at the 2024 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual International Meeting held last week in Anaheim, California. And hard to beat.

Engineering students among the winners at March 26 Auburn Student Research Symposium

Daniel Meadows, a graduate student in chemical engineering, won second place among all university graduate students in the STEM division for his oral presentation

BSE doctoral student's presentation on bio-resin application for 3D-printing houses places first at ASABE

Auburn's Department of Biosystems Engineering shows no signs of changing its award-winning ways for the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). The most recent example? Doctoral student Manish Sakhakarmy, whose oral presentation on the pyrolysis of Douglas firs, eucalyptus and poplar trees for novolac resin production recently placed first in the oral / poster competition at the ASABE Annual International Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.

$1M USDA-funded phosphorus mitigation project latest in CBB’s growing research portfolio

For Auburn's Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts (CBB), 2023 is coming up roses. And ryegrass.

Kitchen to Car: USDA backs BSE professor's method for producing eco-friendly biolubricants from waste cooking oil

High triglycerides — bad for your heart, good for your engine (and your environment). That's the (general) idea behind a novel method to produce eco-friendly biolubricants from waste cooking oil (WCO) to serve as base oil in automotive lubricants developed by Hossein Jahromi, an assistant research professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering. And it's a good one.

Two Auburn Engineering honors students named Goldwater Scholars

Ayden Kemp and Maggie Nelson are just two of this year's 413 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars nationwide.

Biosystems Engineering researchers lead $2M project to produce hydrogen from blended feedstock

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2 million Department of Energy grant that aims to produce hydrogen from blended feedstock, such as legacy waste coal, forest residues and municipal solid waste.

Program created to develop research writing skills among engineering students

Russell Mailen, assistant professor in aerospace engineering, is principal investigator on National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education award,

Auburn biosystems engineering project receives $700k in ADECA funding

An Auburn biosystems engineering project will look into converting forest biomass and plastic waste into transportation fuels with award funding from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.

Faculty team aims to reduce greenhouse gas with hydrogen energy research

An interdisciplinary faculty team is researching hydrogen energy production that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste plastics problems with a

Biosystems faculty to train undergraduate researchers in bioprocessing with NSF award

Biosystems engineering faculty will utilize a grant from the National Science Foundation to train select undergraduate students in the field of bioprocessing.

Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts director makes his #GINNing debut

What's Sushil Adhikari, alumni professor of biosystems engineering, and the director of the cutting edge Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, passionate about? Well, I'll tell you: Biomass pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, torrefaction, biodiesel production and biomass gasification... if you know what I mean.