Constantly the biodiesel industry is searching for some alternative to produce renewable resource. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha curcas can replace or be combined with traditional diesel. During first half of 2000's jatropha biofuel made the headlines as a popular and promising option. It is prepared from jatropha curcas, a plant types belonging to Central America that can be grown on wasteland.

Jatropha Curcas is a non edible plant that grows in the arid areas. The plant grows very rapidly and it can yield seeds for about 50 years. The oil got from its seeds can be used as a biofuel. This can be blended with petroleum diesel. Previously it has actually been utilized two times with algae combination to fuel test flight of commercial airline companies.

Another positive technique of jatorpha seeds is that they have 37% oil content and they can be burned as a fuel without refining them. It is also used for medical purpose. Supporters of jatropha biodiesel say that the flames of jatropha curcas oil are smoke free and they are effectively evaluated for easy diesel motor.

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

Since it is since of some downsides, the jatropha curcas biodiesel have not thought about as a terrific renewable energy. The biggest problem is that no one knows that what precisely the performance rate of the plant is. Secondly they do not know how big scale cultivation might affect the soil quality and the environment as a whole. The jatropha plant requires five times more water per energy than corn and sugarcane. This raises another problem. On the other hand it is to be kept in mind that jatropha can grow on tropical climates with yearly rainfall of about 1000 to 1500 mm. A thing to be noted is that jatropha curcas requires proper irrigation in the first year of its plantation which lasts for decades.

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

Jatropha has one . The seeds and leaves of jatropha are hazardous to humans and animals. This made the Australian government to ban the plant in 2006. The government stated the plant as invasive types, and too dangerous for western Australian agriculture and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has stimulating budding, there are number of research obstacles stay. The importance of detoxification needs to be studied since of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a methodical research study of the oil yield have to be carried out, this is really crucial because of high yield of jatropha would probably needed before jatropha can be contributed substantially to the world. Lastly it is also extremely crucial to study about the jatropha types that can endure in more temperature environment, as jatropha is very much limited in the tropical climates.