Biodiesel from Milk Bush – Pencil Bush Oil as Biofuel
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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)
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South America > Brazil, Argentina
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Other References
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