Jatropha
Biodiesel
– plant based biofuel from seeds.
The Jatropha Curcas is a drought resistant oleaginous
bushy shrub/tree belongs to the family of Euphorbiaceae and its oily
seeds can produce 5–10 times of oil that is got from the common
vegetable oil sources like soyabean and corn. One hectare of
Jatropha plantation can produce around 500 gallons of biodiesel
per year from its physic nuts along with more than 3500
kilograms of waste biomass.
Rapid increase in the scarcity of fossil fuel has caused an
eventual drive to find alternative and renewable sources of fuel
from common vegetable oils like soybean, corn, etc., Recently, oil from
the seeds of the jatropha fruit has been converted to JC biodiesel, which can be directly used in diesel engines.
Jatropha Curcas has now arisen as a very good source of plant based
biodiesel source, with more than 32 percentange of oil content
in its dicot seed with white cotyledons inside the dark brown
coloured testa.
Curcas is one among the 175 members of the Jatropha genus. The plant,
seeds and oil of this biodiesel crop are non-edible and it is
considered to be poisonous to some degree, which keeps of the cattle from
it. In olden days, it is mostly used as live fencing crop due to the
toxic nature of this plant.
The oil which is obtained by crushing the Seeds of Jatropha Curcas, with
the help of an expeller is then subjected to a process called as
trans-esterification in which the triglycerides are converted into
methyl esters to get the biodiesel and the by-products separately.
Jatropha Curcas seeds available in bulk and small quantities or samples
with small/large scale project report
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