The company said Ohio-headquartered Woolpert would oversee planning, design and preliminary design-build documents for the facilities, which the company estimated would convert 300 tons of coal into about 525 barrels of synthetic liquid fuel daily.

The CTL facilities will produce coal-derived ultralow sulfur, high cetane diesel and high quality jet fuel and also capture process-generated carbon dioxide to utilize for growing algae.

“With more than 100 years of design experience, the Woolpert-designed US Fuel facilities will be more than just state of the art CTL technology, they will be a functional and elegant 21st century production facility,” president and chief executive officer Harry Bagot said.

US Fuel said its CTL technology was being developed to minimize operational environmental impact and the plants were expected to be classified as minor emitters with minimal greenhouse gas emissions.

“Woolpert is equally committed to environmental sustainability and will contribute important sustainability elements to the CTL facilities,” Bagot said.

Last week, US Fuel confirmed a joint venture with Renewed World Energies to integrate RWE’s photo bioreactor into the facilities.

The companies did not indicate a timeline for the design-build phase of the plants or when they could come online.

The timeline segment of the company’s website has been removed and replaced with a statement that it will be “updated as [it] is developed”