Biodiesel from Milk Bush – Pencil Bush Oil as Biofuel

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See Plant Oils Used for Biodiesel section for the complete list of plant oils that are being evaluated for biodiesel production.

Biodiesel from Milk Bush Oil – Milk Bush, Pencil Bush Oil as Biofuel

 Milk Bush/Pencil Bush (Euphorbia tirucalli) as Biodiesel

The Pencil Bush shrub can grow in arid as well as more mesophytic zones. A large shrub, Euphorbia tirucalli, is used

as a hedge in Brazil. The ability of these plants to grow well in dry regions and on land that are not suitable for growing

food, and the fact that the oil yield from an acre could be comparable to or better than many other biodiesel candidates (

an estimate of oil yield for milk bush/pencil bush is between 10 and 50 barrels of oil per acre, ie., between 25 and 125

barrels per hectare )

·         Euphorbia tirucalli from Purdue University

·         Bio-engineering of Crops for Biofuel & Bio-energy (PDF)

See also the Biodiesel around the World section for status of Biodiesel across the world, especially in the following countries:

North America > USA, Canada, Mexico

South America > Brazil, Argentina

Europe – UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway), Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland – Dublin

Asia – India, China & Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia 

Middle East - Turkey, Israel

Oceania – Australia

Africa - South Africa

BDPedia.com, the Biodiesel WWW Encyclopedia, provides links, provides directory and web links resources for the biofuels, biodiesel. It is intended to be useful for research and information as well as for buyers, sellers, manufacturers, traders, suppliers, producers, exporters and importers. It will make an effort to provide biofuel feedstock, plant oil feedstocks, vegetable oil info and link, details on oilseeds, bio-fuel, bio-diesel, bio-fuels, plant oils production and uses, and biofuels trade & market resources, data, statistics such as price, prices, demand-supply for buyer, seller, manufacturer, trader, supplier, exporter and producer

Other References

Some interesting sites:

 

  • Plant Oils Database – provides resources and links for over 200 different plant oils and related plant extracts
  • BDPedia – The Biodiesel WWW Encyclopedia

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