Constantly the biodiesel market is searching for some option to produce renewable resource. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha curcas can replace or be integrated with traditional diesel. During very first half of 2000's jatropha biofuel made the headings as a preferred and promising 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 dry areas. The plant grows really quickly and it can yield seeds for about 50 years. The oil received from its seeds can be used as a biofuel. This can be combined with petroleum diesel. Previously it has been used two times with algae combination to sustain test flight of airlines.

Another positive method of jatorpha seeds is that they have 37% oil content and they can be burned as a fuel without improving them. It is also used for medical function. Supporters of jatropha curcas biodiesel state that the flames of jatropha oil are smoke totally free and they are successfully evaluated for basic diesel motor.

Jatropha biodiesel as Renewable Energy Investment has actually attracted the interest of many companies, which have evaluated it for vehicle use. Jatropha biodiesel has been road checked by Mercedes and 3 of the automobiles have actually 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 not thought about as a fantastic renewable resource. The greatest problem is that no one knows that what precisely the performance rate of the plant is. Secondly they do not know how large scale cultivation may impact the soil quality and the environment as a whole. The jatropha plant needs five times more water per energy than corn and sugarcane. This raises another issue. On the other hand it is to be noted that jatropha curcas can grow on tropical environments with annual rainfall of about 1000 to 1500 mm. A thing to be noted is that jatropha curcas needs proper watering in the very first year of its plantation which lasts for years.

Recent survey says that it holds 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 might need the very same quagmire that is dealt with by the majority of biofuel types.

jatropha curcas has one main drawback. The seeds and leaves of jatropha are toxic to humans and animals. This made the Australian government to prohibit the plant in 2006. The federal government stated the plant as intrusive types, and too risky for western Australian agriculture and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has stimulating budding, there are variety of research difficulties remain. The importance of detoxing needs to be studied because of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a systematic study of the oil yield have to be carried out, this is very crucial since of high yield of jatropha curcas would probably needed before jatropha can be contributed substantially to the world. Lastly it is also extremely essential to study about the jatropha curcas species that can make it through in more temperature level environment, as jatropha is extremely much restricted in the tropical environments.