Special Report on Cellulosic Ethanol: Mission Biofuels sets out to produce CE from jatropha waste

In Australia, Mission NewEnergy (formerly Mission Biofuels) announced that it will form a joint venture with a research team in India to produce cellulosic ethanol. Mission has been a leader in development of jatropha-based biodiesel in India, with more than 360,000 acres planted, and in this venture will produce ethanol from jatropha waste. The company is one of the first to announce a cellulosic ethanol venture outside of North America.

Of all the jatropha development projects around the world. Mission’s is the first to divine a purpose for the otherwise toxic jatropha waste, which could only be converted to animal feed after a complex process to extract toxins; and no company has developed a process to do so at a commercially-viable cost.

Mission executives said that the company would own 76 percent of the new venture.

More on Australian biofuels development is available from the Garbrook Advanced Biofuels Resource

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