• Disclaimer and reservation
• Jatropha Curcas general data
• Generative propagation
• Vegetative propagation
• Intercropping
• Spacing / density
• Mowing
• Survival rate and stress conditions
• Pruning, clipping, cutting and car
• Flower and Fruit bearing
• Pollination
• Pest and diseases
• Fertilizing
• Fruit Harvesting
• Jatropha Bio-mass purposes
• Manure purposes
• Other purposes
• Oil expelling and purification process

Jatropha Bio-mass purposes

After pressing the seeds, our filtered and purified pressed Jatropha oil can be directly used as PPO (pure plant oil, B100) in many types of diesel engines which has an indirect injection (IDI) with pre-chambers systems. Direct injection diesels can also run on this PPO, but some modifications have to be made to theses type of diesel engines. In Europe it is most common already to convert our Jatropha PPO into biodiesel with a trans-esterification process, this is mostly done to assure the production of a generally usable (European standard II and III) biofuel which is suitable for any diesel engine which is accepted/recognized by all diesel engines factories for insurance/liability and governmental tax reasons. This process is not complex, but requires the addition of methanol or ethanol and caustic soda.