Constantly the biodiesel market is looking for some alternative to produce eco-friendly energy. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha curcas can replace or be combined with conventional diesel. During first half of 2000's jatropha biofuel made the headlines as a preferred and promising option. 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 dry regions. The plant grows very quickly and it can yield seeds for about 50 years. The oil received from its seeds can be utilized as a biofuel. This can be mixed with petroleum diesel. Previously it has actually been used two times with algae combination to fuel test flight of airlines.

Another favorable technique of jatorpha seeds is that they have 37% oil content and they can be burned as a fuel without improving them. It is also utilized for medical purpose. Supporters of jatropha curcas biodiesel say that the flames of jatropha oil are smoke complimentary and they are successfully tested for simple diesel motor.

Jatropha biodiesel as Renewable Energy Investment has drawn in the interest of lots of business, which have actually evaluated it for vehicle usage. Jatropha biodiesel has been roadway tested by Mercedes and 3 of the vehicles have covered 18,600 miles by utilizing the jatropha curcas plant biodiesel.

Since it is due to the fact that of some disadvantages, the jatropha biodiesel have actually not considered as a terrific eco-friendly energy. The biggest issue is that no one knows that what exactly the efficiency rate of the plant is. Secondly they do not know how large scale growing might affect the soil quality and the environment as a whole. The jatropha plant requires 5 times more water per energy than corn and sugarcane. This raises another concern. On the other hand it is to be noted that jatropha can grow on tropical environments with annual rainfall of about 1000 to 1500 mm. A thing to be kept in mind is that jatropha needs correct irrigation in the first year of its plantation which lasts for years.

Recent study states that it is real that jatropha can grow on degraded land with little water and bad nutrition. But there is no proof 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 might need the exact same quagmire that is faced by most biofuel types.

Jatropha has one primary downside. The seeds and leaves of jatropha curcas are harmful to humans and animals. This made the Australian government to ban the plant in 2006. The federal government declared the plant as intrusive types, and too dangerous for western Australian agriculture and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has stimulating budding, there are number of research study difficulties remain. The value of cleansing needs to be studied since of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a systematic research study of the oil yield need to be undertaken, this is extremely crucial because of high yield of jatropha would most likely required before jatropha curcas can be contributed considerably to the world. Lastly it is also really important to study about the jatropha types that can make it through in more temperature level environment, as jatropha curcas is quite restricted in the tropical climates.