Crews have been cleaning up the orange juice residue in the plant's stainless steel tanks in preparation for the start of fuel processing. The plant had been converted to a business park and the tanks with 5.6 million gallons of storage had been scheduled to be cut up for scrap, before Agri-Source took over the facility.
[Source: St. Petersburg Times]
Tampa Bay to get largest biodiesel plant in the US
In the next two weeks a closed orange juice factory will come back to life with a new product. Instead of OJ,
Agri-Source fuels will start churning out
biodiesel. The plant will begin processing chicken fat and palm and cottonseed oil into fuel at the rate of 125 million gallons a year. The chicken fat will be coming to the Dade City plant from Georgia and Alabama and the oils will be coming from South America.