Indigenous Technology for Jatropha Biodiesel – Eco Green Fuel Ltd. Shows the Way
Eco Green Fuels Pvt. Ltd., an Indian biofuel company working on emerging alternative fuels, has recently (Feb 2010) established an indigenous biodiesel manufacturing facility in Bangalore. The company...
View ArticlePoor Jatropha Yield in Indian Plantations – D1 Oils faces Productivity...
D1 Oils, which recently managed the hiccups over sale of biofuel site at Bromborough, has to now confront with the challenge of limited yield of Crude Jatropha oil from its Indian plantations. D1 Oils...
View ArticleJatropha Oil for Power Generation
From domestic stoves to internal combustion engines to Bio Derived Synthetic Parrafinic Kerosenes (BIO-SPK) for Jet fuel, Jatropha curcas has emerged as a versatile biofuel alternative. A recent study...
View ArticleSG Biofuels Initiates Jatropha Operations in India
After D1 Oils and Mission New Energy, the next Jatropha oil giant to initiate operations in India is none other than the San Diego based SG Biofuels. SG Biofuels, the renowned bioenergy crop company...
View ArticleSunBiofuels Expects 20000 Tons Jatropha Oil from its Mozambique Plantations
UK-based Sun Biofuels predicts that it would be able to produce 2 million liters of fuel from its Jatropha plantations in Mozambique by 2018. Sun Biofuels Mozambique, the subsidiary of U.K.-based Sun...
View ArticleBionas Proposes Jatropha Plantations at Borneo Island
Bio Oil National Group, the Malaysian biofuel company has initiated attempts to turn the state of Sarawak in Borneo Island into a producer of green jet fuel, diesel and has decided to invest RM 500...
View ArticleSG Biofuels Reveals 12000 Unique Genotypes of Jatropha
SG Biofuels, the bioenergy company well known for its R&D facility involved in breeding and biotechnology to develop elite hybrid seeds of Jatropha, recently announced that it is applying more than...
View ArticleNext Test Flight for Jatropha Biofuel
Mexican carrier Interjet and Airbus have conducted their jatropha-based biofuel flight in Airbus A320 aircraft on 1st of April. The biofuel is made from locally sourced jatropha, harvested in the...
View ArticleJatropha Promises 35% GHG Reduction Potential
There have been so much uncertainties and debates about the green house emissions and environmental cost of Jatropha biodiesel. In African sub continent, there has been quite a few projects that are...
View ArticleFrom Micro Propagation to Mass Propagation – A Jatropha Success Story
One of the previous entries in the blog elaborated about the problems with Jatropha propagation and the need for tissue culture for ramping up Jatropha business. The persistent inconsistencies...
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