Constantly the biodiesel industry is looking for some alternative to produce renewable resource. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha curcas can replace or be integrated with conventional diesel. During first half of 2000's jatropha biofuel made the headings as an incredibly popular and promising alternative. It is prepared from jatropha curcas, a plant species belonging to Central America that can be grown on wasteland.

Jatropha Curcas is a non edible plant that grows in the deserts. The plant grows very rapidly and it can yield seeds for about 50 years. The oil received from its seeds can be used as a biofuel. This can be blended with petroleum diesel. Previously it has actually been used twice with algae mix to sustain test flight of commercial airline companies.

Another positive method of jatorpha seeds is that they have 37% oil material and they can be burned as a fuel without improving them. It is likewise used for medical purpose. Supporters of jatropha biodiesel say that the flames of jatropha oil are and they are successfully tested for simple diesel engines.

Jatropha biodiesel as Renewable Energy Investment has brought in the interest of numerous companies, which have actually evaluated it for vehicle use. Jatropha biodiesel has actually been road checked by Mercedes and 3 of the cars have covered 18,600 miles by utilizing the jatropha plant biodiesel.

Since it is because of some drawbacks, the jatropha biodiesel have actually not considered as a wonderful renewable resource. The most significant issue is that nobody knows that just what the performance rate of the plant is. Secondly they don't know how big scale growing may impact the soil quality and the environment as a whole. The jatropha plant needs five times more water per energy than corn and sugarcane. This raises another problem. On the other hand it is to be noted that jatropha curcas can grow on tropical environments with yearly rains of about 1000 to 1500 mm. A thing to be noted is that jatropha requires correct irrigation in the first year of its plantation which lasts for decades.

Recent study states that it holds true that jatropha curcas can grow on degraded land with little water and bad nutrition. But there is no proof for the yield to be high. This may be proportional to the quality of the soil. In such a case it may require high quality of land and may need the same quagmire that is faced by a lot of biofuel types.

jatropha curcas has one main disadvantage. The seeds and leaves of jatropha are hazardous to people and livestock. This made the Australian government to prohibit the plant in 2006. The government declared the plant as intrusive species, and too dangerous for western Australian agriculture and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has promoting budding, there are variety of research difficulties stay. The value of cleansing needs to be studied because of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a methodical research study of the oil yield have to be carried out, this is extremely important due to the fact that of high yield of jatropha curcas would probably required before jatropha curcas can be contributed significantly to the world. Lastly it is likewise very important to study about the jatropha curcas species that can survive in more temperature climate, as jatropha is very much limited in the tropical climates.