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Mission Biotechnologies Sdn. Bhd

Mission Biotechnologies Sdn. Bhd

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  • Founded Date June 20, 1922
  • Sectors Security Guard
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Company Description

Jatropha a Practical Alternative Renewable Energy

Constantly the biodiesel industry is searching for some alternative to produce renewable resource. Biodiesel prepared from canola, sunflower and jatropha can replace or be integrated with traditional diesel. During very first half of 2000’s jatropha biofuel made the headings as an incredibly popular and appealing alternative. It is prepared from jatropha curcas, a plant types belonging to Central America that can be grown on wasteland.

Jatropha Curcas is a non edible plant that grows in the dry regions. The plant grows very rapidly 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 actually been used two times with algae mix to sustain test flight of airlines.

Another favorable method of jatorpha seeds is that they have 37% oil content and they can be burned as a fuel without improving them. It is likewise utilized for medical function. Supporters of jatropha biodiesel say that the flames of jatropha oil are smoke complimentary and they are successfully checked for easy diesel motor.

Jatropha biodiesel as Renewable Energy Investment has attracted the interest of numerous business, which have actually evaluated it for vehicle usage. Jatropha biodiesel has been roadway evaluated by Mercedes and 3 of the automobiles have covered 18,600 miles by utilizing the jatropha plant biodiesel.

Since it is because of some drawbacks, the jatropha biodiesel have actually ruled out as a wonderful sustainable energy. The most significant issue is that nobody knows that just what the productivity rate of the plant is. Secondly they do not know how big scale growing may affect 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 concern. On the other hand it is to be kept in mind that jatropha can grow on tropical environments with yearly rainfall of about 1000 to 1500 mm. A thing to be kept in mind is that jatropha requires proper watering in the first year of its plantation which lasts for decades.

Recent study says that it is real that jatropha can grow on degraded land with little water and poor 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 need high quality of land and may need the same quagmire that is dealt with by many biofuel types.

Jatropha has one main disadvantage. The seeds and leaves of jatropha are toxic to human beings and animals. This made the government to ban the plant in 2006. The federal government stated the plant as invasive types, and too dangerous for western Australian agriculture and the environment here (DAFWQ 2006).

While jatropha has stimulating budding, there are number of research study difficulties stay. The significance of detoxification has actually to be studied because of the toxicity of the plant. Along side a systematic study of the oil yield need to be carried out, this is really crucial since of high yield of jatropha would most likely needed before jatropha can be contributed considerably to the world. Lastly it is also very crucial to study about the jatropha species that can survive in more temperature environment, as jatropha is quite restricted in the tropical climates.