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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

D1 Oils Plant Science Develops Method to Extract Jatropha Oil for Biodiesel Production and Purify Meal for Animal Feed

GrainNet.com
Date Posted: February 6, 2009

The research arm of D1 Oils plc (D1), D1 Oils Plant Science, announces Feb. 4 that it has developed and is patenting a process that expels crude biodiesel oil from Jatropha seeds and at the same time purifies the seedcake (meal) left after oil extraction to produce high protein animal feed.

Jatropha is a tropical oilseed tree that produces grain that can be crushed to produce high yields of inedible vegetable oil suitable for refining into biodiesel.

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