Dr. Robert C. Brown is the Bergles Professor in Thermal Science in  Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Director of the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies (CSET), and Director of the Office of Biorenewables Programs at Iowa State University.  Professor Brown teaches courses in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer in the undergraduate program.  He teaches courses in combustion, fluidized bed technology, biorenewable resources at the graduate level.

Research interests include conversion of biorenewable resources into bioenergy and biobased products, combustion, gasification, fast pyrolysis, hydrogen energy, and hydrodynamics and heat transfer in fluidized beds.

Contact Information:
3022 Black Engineering Bldg.
Iowa State University Ames, IA  50011

Telephone:  (515) 294-7934

Email:  rcbrown@iastate.edu

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