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Ames: Iowa's Future Bio-Industrial Capital?
The City of Ames is supporting the exploration of a process that converts corn stalks and garbage into "bio-oil." With the help of the city, Robert Brown, Iowa Farm Bureau Director of the Bioeconomy Institute, and Jim Cooper, coordinator of the Prairie Rivers of Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, will be studying the commercial feasibility of such a process to provide a renewable source of fuel for the Ames power plant. Click here to learn more about this initiative.
May 30, 2007 Birrell Named to New Professorship at ISU
Stuart Birrell, associate professor in Iowa State University's agricultural and biosystems engineering department, has been named to fill a new professorship created by the founders and owners of KINZE Manufacturing Inc. in...
May 30, 2007 ConocoPhillips Awards ISU $22.5 Million for Biofuels Research -- ISU News Service
ConocoPhillips, the third-largest petroleum and energy company in the United States, has partnered with Iowa State researchers to develop new biofuels technologies. ConocoPhillips announced the eight-year, $22.5...
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