Information on sugar engineering degree courses and degree program at Audubon.

To foster a center of excellence for applied and original sugar research, which exceeds the expectations of our stakeholders in Louisiana and the international sugar industry, through innovative research, technology transfer and education.

Provides a list of pdf versions of all annual reports published to summarize research done at Audubon Sugar Institute.

Provides all the presentations made during the 2007 Factory Operations Seminar held by Audubon Sugar Institute for the Louisiana Sugar Industry.

Short Course will be held June 26th and 27th, 2008 at the Holiday Inn South in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This agenda will be useful to engineers, chemists, operators and specialists involved in the food sweetener, sugar, chemical, pharmaceutical and water treatment industries, which have similar resin process applications. Registration is open now, click here for more information.

This glossary of technical terms commonly used in sugar processing is provided to you by P. W. Rein, referenced from his book entitled, "Cane Sugar Engineering", that will be published in 2006 by Bartens, a world-renowned sugar sweetener publisher.

Audubon Sugar Institute announces a 2-day course on the "Practical Aspects of Ion Exchange, Adsorption and Industrial Chromatographic Technologies" to be held June 26-27, 2008. Registration Fee: $700

Provides information on equipment used in the Louisiana sugar mills.

Analytical data for molasses samples during 2007 grinding season.

Analytical data for juice samples during 2007 grinding season.

Provides a list of projects at Audubon Sugar Institute funded by Louisiana Board of Regents and USDOE

Provides a list and synopses of all approved projects that are reported to LAES and USDA.

Provides technical information on Filter Operation at the Louisiana sugar mill

The overall objective of sugar pan boiling is to crystallize as much sugar as possible, while still producing crystal of the required size and with a good size distribution.

The following procedure can be used to determine whether sufficient amylase is being added to reduce starch concentrations.

Analytical Data for Molasses samples during 2004 Grinding season

In 1880 ninety-five percent of the sugarcane in the United States was grown in Louisiana. Then the introduction of government tariffs on domestic sugarcane production further threatened the survival of the Louisiana sugar industry. Visit here for a presentation with audio about ASI's history from the beginning in 1885 to the present.

Provides PowerPoint slides presented at Audubon Sugar Institute's Milling Seminar held May 11, 2005.

Audubon's faculty, Dr. Donal Day, presented this PowerPoint slideshow entitled, "Ethanol from Sugar Cane as a Renewable Fuel" to a group of students in a newly introduced Bioethics course at St. Joseph's Academy in Baton Rouge in August 2006.

ISSCT PROCESSING WORKSHOPBaton Rouge, Louisiana, USA29 May to 1 June, 2006"Cane Juice Purification Processes" REPORTThe ISSCT Processing Workshop was held in Baton-Rouge, Louisiana, from 29 May to 1 June 2006. The Audubon Sugar Institute, of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, hosted it on the beautiful campus of the LSU. No less than 84 delegates, representing 19 countries, attended the workshop, which addressed the topic: “Cane juice purification processes”.

Molasses, a byproduct of sugar production in the U.S., shows promise as a viable source of raw material to make ethanol, according to new research done by LSU's Audubon Sugar Institute, that looked into the feasibility of producing fuel from sugar and sugar-related products. This article was written by Bill Tomson of Dow Jones Newswires and posted 7/10/06 on CattleNetwork.com website. Click title to read more...

(Radio News 10/16/06) The harvest has started in most sugarcane-growing areas of the state. Louisiana sugar mills pushed back their opening dates, because farmers were delayed starting the harvest since many were still planting next year’s crop. (Runtime: 60 seconds)

Dr. Donal Day was invited to teach a section on Bioethanol in a bioethics course at St. Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge. The class is a recent addition to the science program at St. Joseph's and isalso made available for Catholic High students as well. Guest speakers are featured to cover topics of current interest and relevance to decisions that shape today’s world.

The sugar quality is an area of much interest to the Louisiana sugarcane industry, and the effects of washing the sugar in the centrifugals, different boiling schemes for production of VLC sugar and sugar quality changes during storage are being investigated at Audubon Sugar Institute (ASI) with the support of the Louisiana sugar mills.

Audubon proudly announces the addition of Post Doctoral Researcher, Dr. Giovanna DeQueiroz, to the ranks of AgCenter's prestigous Patent & PVP Club.Three added to Patent Club at a ceremony on September 10, 2006.

ASI Graduate Student, Nicholas Gil presented a paper on his research to add value to sugar cane leaves and tops at the 7th Congress of the Colombian Association of Sugarcane Technologists in Cali, Colombia.

Analytical data for molasses samples during 2006 Grinding season.

Analytical data for juice samples during 2006 Grinding season

Provides technical information to the Louisiana sugar industry on handling the HTB phenomenon.

Provides technical information for the Louisiana sugar industry on dextranase usage.

Analytical Data for Molasses Samples during 2003 Grinding Season

Analytical Data for Juice samples during 2003 Grinding season

Analytical data for juice samples during 2005 Grinding season

Analytical Data for Juice samples during 2004 Grinding Season

Analytical data for molasses samples during 2005 Grinding season

This glossary of abbreviations commonly used in analytyical lab is provided to you by Lee Madsen, II, Research Associate at Audubon Sugar Institute working in our Analytical/Chemistry Lab.