Constantly the biodiesel industry is trying to find some alternative to produce eco-friendly energy. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha curcas can change or be combined with conventional 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 extremely quickly and it can for about 50 years. The oil got from its seeds can be utilized as a biofuel. This can be blended with petroleum diesel. Previously it has been used twice with algae mix to sustain test flight of airlines.

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

Jatropha biodiesel as Renewable resource Investment has attracted the interest of lots of companies, which have evaluated it for automotive use. Jatropha biodiesel has been roadway tested by Mercedes and 3 of the cars have actually covered 18,600 miles by using the jatropha plant biodiesel.

Since it is due to the fact that of some disadvantages, the jatropha biodiesel have not thought about as a terrific eco-friendly energy. The greatest issue is that nobody understands that exactly what the efficiency rate of the plant is. Secondly they do not know how large scale cultivation might affect the soil quality and the environment as a whole. The jatropha curcas 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 requires proper watering in the very first year of its plantation which lasts for decades.

Recent survey says that it is true that jatropha can grow on abject land with little water and poor 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 may require high quality of land and may require the exact same quagmire that is faced by most biofuel types.

Jatropha has one primary disadvantage. The seeds and leaves of jatropha are toxic to humans and livestock. This made the Australian government to ban the plant in 2006. The government declared the plant as intrusive species, and too risky for western Australian agriculture and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has promoting budding, there are number of research difficulties stay. The significance of detoxification has to be studied due to the fact that of the toxicity of the plant. Along side an organized study of the oil yield have to be carried out, this is very crucial since of high yield of jatropha would most likely needed before jatropha can be contributed considerably to the world. Lastly it is likewise extremely crucial to study about the jatropha curcas types that can survive in more temperature level environment, as jatropha is quite limited in the tropical climates.