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Dr. Bhupendra Khandelwal joined The University of Alabama as an associate professor working in the area of fuels and combustion. He is working on combustion, emissions and performance of sustainable fuel to be used in gas turbine engines and other combustion sources. Prior to this position, Khandelwal held a position of assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Sheffield in the Low Carbon Combustion Centre. He was leading combustion and emissions research areas at LCCC. Khandelwal is working closely with a large range of industries, government organizations and universities, including U.S. DOE, FAA, Siemens, Rolls-Royce, UK MOD and Dstl.

He is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellow; Royal Aeronautical Society Member; American Society of Mechanical Engineers Combustion, Fuels and Emissions committee member; and AIAA Terrestrial Energy Systems Technical Committee Member. He is also recipient of a Royal Aeronautical Society Centennial Scholar, ASME IGTI Student Scholar for two consecutive years in 2011 and 2012, and the IMechE Grant. Khandelwal serves as the technical area organizer for AIAA conferences and as a reviewer for several scientific journals and U.S. DOE/European Commission for alternative fuels related projects. He was point of contact for ASME Turbo Expo 2020 on behalf of the alternative fuels technical committee.

His research on fuels, emissions, combustion and combustors is widely published in journals and conferences, with a total of close to 100 publications. He has advised 6 PhD students to date and 4 more PhD students are working under his supervison. He has delivered several invited talks at prestigious conferences and meetings including UK fuels standards committee, Aviation Fuels Committee 2018, Aero India, and Coordinating Research Council. He has also delivered tutorials at international conferences.

 

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