Biodiesel production facility

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On August 15, 2007, Imperium Renewables celebrated the opening of its Imperium Grays Harbor biodiesel facility. With an annual capacity of 100 million gallons, it is the largest biodiesel production facility in the United States.

The facility is sited on a twelve-acre parcel of land at the Port of Grays Harbor, Washington. The production facility is capable of storing up to seventeen million gallons of biodiesel and feedstocks (the oil that is used to produce biodiesel) at any one time.

The site includes eight main tanks, which can hold two million gallons each and two reserves that can hold 500,000 gallons. The tanks are supported by massive, three-and-a-half-foot-thick concrete foundations, each one totaling 1,000 cubic yards of concrete supported by 185 piles driven 75 feet into the ground. Connection between the various equipment is achieved via an elaborate network of more than 70,000 linear feet of piping. The facility is feedstock agnostic, meaning it can create biodiesel from numerous different feedstocks -- even simultaneously.

The new facility incorporated proprietary technology techniques and processes that had been developed and improved at Imperium's original facility, Seattle Biodiesel. Imperium chose the Port of Grays Harbor for its strategic connections to rail, road and water transportation for both inbound raw materials as well as outbound biodiesel fuel.