Economic feasibility of jatropha oil as biodiesel

We studied economic feasibility of biodiesel production from jatropha in current research work. We prepared the biodiesel by process of transesterification of the unfiltered jatropha oil in presence of three percent of KOH catalyst. We added ethanol to oil by 30% volume basis. We kept as reaction temperature at 60 ± 5°C for one hour. The developed batch production unit of 5 litres capacity at Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal was used for biodiesel production from jatropha oil. We obtained 90.20% biodiesel recovery. We calculated the economic feasibility of prepared biodiesel by analysis of economics of jatropha plantation, jatropha oil extraction, jatropha ethyl ester production. We found the cost of oil per kg and JEE production per litre to be 25.34 and 28.64, respectively.