Researchers hope oil will flow from Yunnan tree seeds (China)

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/06/05/282167/Researchers_hope_oil_will_flow_from_Yunnan_tree_seeds.htm

OIL-PRODUCING trees are being planted in southwest China's Yunnan Province to increase the region's fuel supply.

The new project will result in more than 666,000 hectares of jatropha curcas trees being planted to produce bio-diesel for automobiles. This year, the trees will be planted over a 25,000-hectare area.

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Yunnan began planting jatropha curcas trees, originally native to America, in the 1980s and has conducted research on extracting oil from the trees ever since.

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Experimental results show that 1 kilogram of bio-diesel oil can be made from 3 kilograms of seeds. Normally, 1 hectare of jatropha curcas trees can produce 4,500 kilograms of seeds, from which 1,500 kilograms of bio-diesel can be made, Zhang said.

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Cost of such diesel oil can reach 5.4 yuan (US$0.67) per kilogram and its market price could be even higher, said Zhang. Currently the price of petrochemical diesel oil is only about 4.3 yuan.

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