Biodiesel as an Alternative Fuel subtitute. Biodiesel generally can be defined as the fuel from the vegetable, the most likely development for energy substitute is biodiesel (from palm oil and jatropha curcas) as a substitute for diesel and bioethanol (from cassava) as a substitute for gasoline.
How to Make Biodiesel from Jatropha curcas
Jatropha curcas is a shrub of the family Euphorbiaceae. Within five months of drought-resistant plants is starting to bear fruit, full productive at the age of five years, and his working life reached 50 years.
The fruit can not be consumed because it can cause poisoning. People in rural areas often use this plant to treat a bowel obstruction in children under five years old or eliminate tooth pain by dripping sap of the tree with the hole spacing of the teeth.
Castor oil can replace petroleum diesel to power generators. Because jatropha can be grown in almost all regions, the jatropha oil helps generate electricity to remote locations and this oil can be produced by the communities that need electricity.
The process of making jatropha oil is not too complicated and can be done by anyone with crude equipment, how the process :
- Steamed jatropha fruit for an hour.
- Jatropha fruit crushed in a blender.
- After that, fruits and beans that have been destroyed put into forging machine oil.
- With the hydraulic system pressured, the pulp is squeezed to produce oil.
Every 10 kilograms of crushed jatropha beans will produce 3.5 liters of jatropha oil as a diesel substitute. This oil intangibles such as cooking oil, which is viscous, smooth, and the smell is not overpowering.
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