CQ Inc.

Biofuels

We have a strong pedigree of operating commercial processes that provide low-emission fuel for power plants, cars, trains, and homes — fuel derived from renewable resources such as sawdust, waste cardboard, paper pulp, soybeans, and waste coal.

Telogia Power Plant

Our plants span:

Biomass to electricity

From 2005 — 2008, we owned and operated a 14 MWe (gross) power plant in Florida. Telogia burns roughly 160,000 tons annually of various biomass wastes, including waste wood, non-recyclable fibers, cardboard, distressed packaging, unfit currency and confidential documents. A paper processing facility at the site prepares some of this diverse feedstock for combustion. Other processing lines similarly prepare various wood wastes and blends them with paper cubes to extend the fuel supply.

Within 8 months of CQ ownership, Telogia achieved 100% improvement in such measures as output and plant availability.

Biodiesel

Biodiesel is the fastest growing alternative fuel in the U.S., which uses 20 million barrels of oil a day. This nationwide push to use renewable fuels and reduce dependence on foreign oil has added environmental benefits. 20% biodiesel blended with 80% conventional diesel fuel lowers total hydrocarbons up to 30%, carbon monoxide up to 20%, and total particulate matter up to 15%.

CQ’s Middletown BioFuels, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, owns and operates a 2 million-gallon-per-year (MGPY) plant that converts soybean oil into a drop-in replacement for No. 2 transportation diesel fuel or home heating oil. Immediately after buying the plant, Middletown BioFuels implemented enhancements across all steps in the process, transforming the plant into a highly efficient operation. Plans are underway to expand the plant to 6 MGPY. Currently, a Pennsylvania fuel blender and distributor buys all of the plant's output.

“CQ BioPower has transformed our demonstration plant into a sustainable commercial operation in fairly short order.”
— Don Coccia, Managing Partner, AGRA Biofuels, LLC

Middletown’s biodiesel can be used in any application using petroleum diesel fuel — with improved emissions performance for:

Subsidies and credits are available for clean power generated by alternative fuels, including emissions credits for clean power supplied to the electricity grid.

Processed Wood Pellets and Other Wood-Derived Fuels

Pellet fuel is a renewable, clean-burning, cost-competitive energy alternative for commercial, industrial, and residential applications. It is a biomass product made of renewable substances — generally recycled wood or wood wastes. CQ Inc is in the early stages of developing renewable pellet fuels primarily for the residential market. The pellets will be formed from selected, quality controlled hardwood wastes.

CQ has significant pellet-making expertise, having run pellet machines as part of its synfuel and E-Fuel operations that produced millions of tons of pellets per year over the last decade.

There is exponential growth in pellet furnace installations of all types throughout North America and to an even greater extent in Europe. Our first plant is planned for the small community of Irvona in the Central Pennsylvania hardwood forests. We have arrangements for significant supply of the requisite hardwood wastes from hardwood millers as well as from our own hardwood finishing operation in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.