Harold Birkett

Associate Professor
Audubon Sugar Institute
Louisiana State University
United States of America

Biography

Over 40 years sugar, ethanol and sugar by-products experience. Holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana. Chief Process Design Engineer and Process Specialist for Schaffer & Associates for past 33 years. Developed computerized Material and Energy programs for the sugar and process industries that facilitate the design of plants and the analysis of factory operation and laboratory reports. Part time Associate Professor Sugar Technology at Audubon Sugar Institute, Louisiana State University. Formerly, process Manager in sugar factories and ethanol facilities in Guyana and USA. Member and past president of the American Society of Sugarcane Technologists and the author of over 50 publications.

Research Intrest

Material & Energy Balances, and Process Design for sugar factories, sugar refineries, alcohol distilleries, and chemical plants. Air quality calculations. Engineering for new cane sugar mills, cane sugar refineries and sugar facility expansions.

List of Publications
Birkett, Harold and Jeanie Stein. “Low Grade Station Operations and Equipment Evaluation”, Annual ASI Factory Operations Seminar, April, 2005, 2-17
Viator, R.P., E.P. Richard, B.J. Viator, W. Jackson, H.L. Waguespack and H. Birkett. “Combine Harvester Extractor Fan and Ground Speed Effects on Sugar Yield, Cane Quality and Field Losses”, Submitted to Applied Engineering in Agriculture, December 2005, in review

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