Contract Operations

Outsourcing production on a turnkey basis to CQ Inc. is an economical and worry-free way to have dependable, state-of-the-art operations — without capital investment.

Overall, CQ Inc. affiliates produced over 24 million tons of synthetic fuel from coal in June 1998 — December 2007 timeframe.

“These guys from CQ have never disappointed us. Their combination of creativity and know-how is unmatched.”
— John Siegel, Principal, W2 Synfuels and the Megawatt Group

Ginger Hill Plant

• Waste coal recovery plant that produced cleaned fines.
• CQ Inc. designed and operated the plant using state-of-the-art froth flotation, water-only cyclones, spirals and screen-bowl centrifuges.
• Cleaned coal is pelletized with a reagent and coarse coal to create a synthetic fuel.

Bowie Synfuel Facility

• Retained to oversee relocation of a synfuel plant to the Bowie property.
• Managed re-erection at the mine.
• Operated this production facility creating synfuel out of a portion of the mine’s output.
• Successfully placed the plant into operation in the fall of 2006.
• The plant was expected to produce synfuel at over 500 tons per hour throughout 2007.

Pleasant Ridge Plant

• Waste coal recovery plant that produced cleaned fines.
• CQ Inc. designed and operated the plant using state-of-the-art froth flotation, water-only cyclones, spirals and screen-bowl centrifuges.
• Cleaned coal is pelletized with a reagent and coarse coal to create a synthetic fuel.
• Won the John A. Holmes Safety Association Award for zero lost-time accidents — 9 years in a row.

East Bend Plant

• Received coal from various sources and applied a latex reagent followed by heat and pressure to produce a synthetic fuel.
• Fuel is sold to Cincinnati Gas & Electric.
• Operated for its first year without a lost-time accident.

Clymer Fuels LLC Plant

• Received raw coal from over 20 surface and deep mines.
• Produced bituminous clean coal for power plants throughout the Mid-Atlantic states.
• Used blending, crushing and ultrasonic cleaning technologies to produce synthetic fuel and clean coal at specified quality levels and best possible Btu recovery.

Yellow Run Waste Coal Recovery Plant

• Cleaned feedstock to power plant specifications using hydrocyclones, heavy-media cyclones, froth flotation, and dewatering equipment.
• Used leading-edge ultrasound technology to produce synthetic fuel.

Tyrone E-Fuel® Plant

• Used paper-making byproducts and coal to produce E-Fuel pellets that Westvaco Corp. burned in its paper mill boiler.
• Re-located to East Bend when the paper mill closed.
• Operated for 6 years with only one lost-time accident.