Constantly the biodiesel industry is trying to find some alternative to produce renewable resource. Biodiesel prepared from canola, and jatropha curcas can change or be combined with standard diesel. During first half of 2000's jatropha biofuel made the headlines as a really popular and promising alternative. It is prepared from jatropha curcas, a plant species native to Central America that can be grown on wasteland.

Jatropha Curcas is a non edible plant that grows in the dry areas. The plant grows extremely 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 blended with petroleum diesel. Previously it has been utilized two times with algae combination to sustain test flight of industrial airline companies.

Another favorable approach of jatorpha seeds is that they have 37% oil material and they can be burned as a fuel without improving them. It is also utilized for medical function. Supporters of jatropha biodiesel state that the flames of jatropha oil are smoke free and they are effectively checked for basic diesel engines.

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

Since it is because of some disadvantages, the jatropha biodiesel have actually not thought about as a wonderful renewable resource. The greatest problem is that no one knows that what precisely 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 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 noted is that jatropha curcas requires proper watering in the very first year of its plantation which lasts for decades.

Recent study 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 may be proportional to the quality of the soil. In such a case it might 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 harmful 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 risky for western Australian farming and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has stimulating budding, there are variety of research challenges stay. The value of detoxing has to be studied due to the fact that of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a systematic study of the oil yield have to be undertaken, this is extremely important since of high yield of jatropha would probably needed before jatropha can be contributed considerably to the world. Lastly it is also very essential to study about the jatropha species that can make it through in more temperature environment, as jatropha is quite limited in the tropical environments.