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The actual issue in success of biofuel production at large scale is the limitation of raw material either it be biofuel plant or Jatropha curcas. Another research that is ongoing is finding a way to extract maximum oil from these crops. All the process of biofuel production depends on the quantity of oil that is extracted from the crop. There is direct ratio of oil and the biofuel in the large scale production of such fuels. Therefore it is very important to have complete technology that can be used 100% to convert available raw material into oil. The oil is later converted in to biofuel.
To replace use of fossil fuel, vast amount of fresh water and land is required. New techniques use like biotechnology and tissue culture is helping to produce special bred of mustard varieties which produces high oil and are thus very useful in crop rotation with other plants of cereals. Also such oil containing crops acts as bio-pesticides in farm and protects other food crops from being infected with pest and other unwanted organisms.
Today chlorophyll containing microorganism like Algae is used in production of biofuels. Many species of algae are oil rich and can later be extracted and processed into biofuels. Later, remain of such dried algae is further reprocessed to produce ethanol. Such way algae used in biofuel production is completely used, even its dried form.
Research in biofuel production is growing with promising results from various sources.
One such research is closely monitoring Jatropha curcas as potential raw material in biofuel production. This research is at Plant Research International, which is a department of the Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands.