Cykloburn, which is commercialising technology to produce electricity and heat from poultry farm litter, is the first spinout to emerge out of Morgan State University.

Morgan State University has generated its first ever spinout, licensing technology to produce energy and heat from excess poultry farm litter to US-based Cykloburn Technologies.

Cykloburn, founded in 2017, is commercialising a technology called CycloBurn that uses poultry litter as biomass to generate heat and electricity. The approach also means farms have a way of managing the environmental damage from excess litter.

The development of CycloBurn was led by Seong Lee, professor and lab director in the Center for Advanced…