Storage Tanks for Ethanol

The ethanol produced by the company is kept in storage tanks prior to being loaded either on railcars or tanker trucks. We also need storage for other fluids including gasoline, which is used to denature the ethanol, and sugar water, which is an alternative source for making ethanol.

When the Olympia brewery closed down in Tumwater, just south of Olympia, Washington, Liquafaction corporation bought 200 tanks from their beer production plant. These tanks are about 35,000 gallons each. Most of these tanks have been sold and shipped to customers all over the United States, but we have plans for sixteen of them at the ethanol plant, and are keeping another eight in reserve.

Here is what the tanks looked like in the 6-story beer building at the brewery.

To get the tanks out of the building, we had to cut off the north wall, which was made out of concrete, and then fly the tanks out of the building with a crane. Here are a few of our tanks at a parking lot of the beer building in Tumwater, Washington.

A google satellite image of our staging yard at the Port of Olympia. You can see a couple dozen tanks there. We shipped a lot of tanks and other things from this yard by rail. The rail connection is a few hundred feet South of this image.

These tanks were used in making beer for human consumption.  Here's what they look like inside.

At the moment, we have all of our property out of Tumwater. We still have 10 tanks at the Port of Olympia, but should have those out by the end of the month. The rest of our tanks are at the Moses Lake facility. Here is a view of some tanks at the north side of the road to the new warehouse.

A view of tanks on the north side of the road between the Moses Lake Biofuel Facility and the new warehouse, looking at the plant to the South East.

A view of the tanks on the south side of the road between the plant and the new warehouse, looking at the plant.