Iowa State Students Take Their Professor’s Advice and Start an Ames Bioenergy Company

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Released: 7/6/2010 4:00 PM EDT
Source: Iowa State University

Newswise — Iowa State University’s Robert C. Brown pulled a few of his graduate students aside a couple years back and offered up an extracurricular challenge.

“You are all experts on pyrolysis,” he remembers telling them. “Why don’t you start a company specifically to commercialize bio-oil recovery?”

The result is Avello Bioenergy Inc. based at Iowa State University’s BioCentury Research Farm just west of Ames.

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