Constantly the biodiesel market is searching for some option to energy. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha can replace or be integrated with conventional diesel. During very first half of 2000's jatropha curcas biofuel made the headings as a popular and appealing option. 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 arid areas. The plant grows really 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 combined with petroleum diesel. Previously it has been utilized two times with algae combination to fuel test flight of airlines.

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 say that the flames of jatropha curcas oil are smoke free and they are effectively tested for easy diesel engines.

Jatropha biodiesel as Renewable Energy Investment has brought in the interest of many business, which have evaluated it for automobile use. Jatropha biodiesel has actually been road tested by Mercedes and 3 of the cars have actually covered 18,600 miles by utilizing the jatropha curcas plant biodiesel.

Since it is due to the fact that of some downsides, the jatropha biodiesel have not considered as a fantastic sustainable energy. The most significant issue is that no one knows that just what 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 needs 5 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 environments with annual rains of about 1000 to 1500 mm. A thing to be kept in mind is that jatropha needs correct watering in the first year of its plantation which lasts for years.

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 require high quality of land and may require the same quagmire that is dealt with by a lot of biofuel types.

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

While jatropha curcas has stimulating budding, there are number of research challenges remain. The importance of cleansing has actually to be studied since of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a systematic research study of the oil yield have to be undertaken, this is very crucial because of high yield of jatropha curcas would most likely required before jatropha can be contributed substantially to the world. Lastly it is also extremely crucial to study about the jatropha types that can make it through in more temperature level environment, as jatropha curcas is very much limited in the tropical climates.