Constantly the biodiesel market is looking for some alternative to produce eco-friendly energy. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha can replace or be combined with traditional 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 types native to Central America that can be grown on wasteland.

Jatropha Curcas is a non edible plant that grows in the deserts. The plant grows really quickly and it can yield seeds for about 50 years. The oil got from its seeds can be utilized as a biofuel. This can be combined with petroleum diesel. Previously it has actually been utilized two times with algae combination to sustain test flight of business airline companies.

Another favorable method of jatorpha seeds is that they have 37% oil content and they can be burned as a fuel without fine-tuning them. It is also utilized for medical function. Supporters of jatropha biodiesel say that the flames of jatropha oil are smoke complimentary and they are effectively tested for basic diesel engines.

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

Since it is because of some downsides, the jatropha biodiesel have ruled out as a terrific sustainable energy. The most significant issue is that nobody knows that exactly what the performance rate of the plant is. Secondly they do not understand how big scale cultivation may affect the soil quality and the environment as a whole. The plant needs 5 times more water per energy than corn and sugarcane. This raises another problem. On the other hand it is to be noted that jatropha can grow on tropical climates with annual rains of about 1000 to 1500 mm. A thing to be kept in mind is that jatropha requires appropriate watering in the first year of its plantation which lasts for decades.

Recent survey says that it is true that jatropha can grow on degraded 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 need the same quagmire that is dealt with by a lot of biofuel types.

Jatropha has one main disadvantage. The seeds and leaves of jatropha are poisonous to humans and animals. This made the Australian federal government to prohibit the plant in 2006. The government stated the plant as intrusive species, and too risky for western Australian farming and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has stimulating budding, there are number of research obstacles stay. The importance of detoxing needs to be studied because of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a systematic study of the oil yield need to be undertaken, this is very essential due to the fact that 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 species that can make it through in more temperature climate, as jatropha is quite restricted in the tropical climates.