Happy New Years from the Aggie A-Salt team! Things are looking great for 2013!! Looking for sponsors!! Especially to cover entry fees for the Speed Week and World of Speed events! We would love to be able to announce the team and those covering our entrance at each event! Gonna be a great year!

Merry Christmas from the USU Aggie A-Salt team!!!

            Took this off of the USU main page.  Happy Holidays from the USU Aggie A-Salt Team!!

 A couple of pictures taken by Q.

Algal diesel for Speed Week 2013!

We are right in the middle of growing all the algae we need for us to have enough biodiesel for 2 long course passes at the Bonneville Salt Flats for Speed Week 2013!!  These are inoculum tubes of one of our favorite biodiesel precursor producing algal strains!

The body team has been working on their design so that they can work to get the mold pieces built.  To make sure the body will work with the frame correctly they have been working to make a correct model of the frame.  The result looks great!

Record Certification

National Biodiesel Conference

 2 graduate students: Alex McCurdy and Robert Willis, and undergraduate Mike Morgan just received word that they have been selected for scholarships to attend the National Biodiesel Conference in February in Las Vegas, Nevada! They have each had their posters accepted and will be presenting them at the Conference as their posters were accepted as well.

Alex McCurdy will present his poster talking about our growth and processing methods and the dyno and emissions data for each of our fuels. The poster gives an overview of our recent publication!

Robert Willis will present his poster talking about his method for extraction of lipid.

Mike Morgan will present his poster talking about the USU Aggie A-Salt Streamliner!

Congrats to the team!

H&R Services in Cache Valley sponsors us with AMSOIL for all our lubrication needs!  Check these guys out and give them a call!  They are great to work with!  Thanks you guys!

#2 Most Read Article!

According to the Energy and Fuels website our recently published article is the #2 most read article for the month!

USU Flyer

Student Teams Design Presentations

Yesterday next semester's Mechanical Engineering build teams presented their designs to the group and the professors as part of preparing to build here shortly.  Both teams did well.  The body team has a big task ahead of them and it will be awesome to see what they can do!  The drivetrain team was given the go ahead to get the transmission ordered so they can get the car put together ASAP during next semester so that extensive dyno testing/tuning can be done!

The teams are: Blue Aero which is our body team and Team S.P.E.E.D. which is our drivetrain team.
Both teams did well and it will be great to see what they accomplish here as we get ready for Speed Week 2013 at the Bonneville Salt Flats!

 Above: Team S.P.E.E.D. -Our drivetrain design/build team 

Below: Blue Aero Team 

Social Media

Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter!  Check out photos of the car at Flickr!  You can also send us questions or comments via email!

Twitter: @USULSP

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/USULSP/

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usulsp/

Update 12-8-12: You can now also check us out at our new Google + page:
https://plus.google.com/101453852062441396489


If you have any questions or comments shoot us an email at USULandspeed@gmail.com

Missed Opportunity

We realized we never posted some of the coolest pictures that came out of the World of Speed event!  At the event there were three other schools in their respective classes.  Furthest to the left is of course our car with myself (Michael R. Morgan), my Dad (Michael D. Morgan), and Jon Snyder as representatives for USU.  The second car from the left is the Brigham Young University (BYU) team with their electric streamliner that is the current land speed record holder in its class.  Following that is one of the Fox Valley Technical College cars out of Wisconsin and they also have the other car that is the furthest to the right in the photo.  Second to last in the photo is the el Camino running a turbocharged big block chevy out of Utah Valley University (UVU).  The were running in the 180's for much of the event.  It was pretty awesome to see the other schools there and hopefully we will see more. Sadly this was the last event for the BYU car as there is no longer a faculty member who is willing to take over the project now that the professor previously in charge has retired.  Best of luck to you guys and hopefully someone will pick it up in the future!

Someone from the  BYU group also talked about the event here: http://dailyderbi.com/world-of-speed-at-the-bonneville-salt-flats/

First page of our publication!

Biodiesel Publication in Energy and Fuels

Our recent publication is now formatted and up live as the final form.  It's available to everyone to download so check it out!  This research is what sparked the salt flats project.  Read it and share it!

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef3012382

Time to post some more pictures!

Above is an awesome photo compliments of "Burly" Burlile! Taken during the World of Speed 2012

These 4 awesome shots were also taken at the World of Speed 2012 event by professional photographer Terry D. Call

Some other great shots taken by Karamatullah Danyal, a graduate student in Dr. Lance Seefeldt's lab, during our media event at the Logan airport between the World of Speed and World Finals events.

These are some cool shots that came from the World Finals event and are taken by various members of the Morgan family.

We will have plenty more photos of the car as we get more time.  Hope you guys are excited for next year as we prepare for our A-Salt on the salt at the 2013 Speed Week event!