Originally Posted by JimGA
I got the answer where mixed fuel goes.
Reading this thread was interesting. I had to register to reply, it's not often I know answer to questions, so I'm like a school boy with his hand in the air. But I do know where all the incorrectly mixed fuel goes to in Georgia.
If you have ethenol, gas, Jet A or diesel that is mixed or incorrectly mixed it is commonally called "mixed fuel" and is sold at a discount.
It goes to produce Electrical power at the Mid-Georgia Cogen. Mid-Georgia Cogen is a 308 MW electric combined cycle gas turbine power plant located in Kathleen, Georgia. The plant is primarily used meet peak power demands. There they have a large turbine engine powered generator. Since the engine is a turbine, it is designed to burning any type of liquid fuel. If mix fuel is not avalable they will just burn the most economical fuel, usually natural gas.
The other source of mixed fuel, besides mistakes made on the fuel truck, is from when diesel and gas gets mixed in the colonal pipeline. Both fuels are pumped in the same pipeline. when they start pumping a new type of fuel, the fuel mixes with the fuel already in the pipe. This is the primary source of mix fuel.
Of course I don't/can't speak for all carriers, but our mixed product gets hauled to any 1 of 3 facilities where we offload it. One is in Birmingham AL, one is in Savannah GA, and one is somewhere in Virginia. None of them are guaranteed to accept it either. We have had trailers sit for months with mixed product on them with nowhere to take them. AND...when we do get one of those facilities to accept it, we have to pay them to take it. I don't know where it goes from those facilities. Could very well be power plants like the one you're talking about in Kathleen GA.