Oil Crop Potential for Biodiesel Production: Summary of Three Years of Spring Mustard Research -- Methodologies, Results, and Recommendations; 2000-2003

Research output: NRELSubcontract Report

Abstract

This report summarizes a project whose goal was to support R&D to develop an oil-seed crop that has the potential to reduce the feedstock cost of biodiesel to between 7 and 8 cents per pound of oil and expand supplies of biodiesel as demand for biodiesel grows. The key to this goal is that the non-oil fraction of the oil crop (the seed meal) must have a high value outside of the animal feedmarkets and produce oil that is not suitable for human consumption. To that end, a spring breeding program was developed to increase diversity of glucosinolate and the concentration of glucosinolates in the meal and to optimize the oil composition for biodiesel fuels. This report presents the research on the spring planted hybrids.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages62
StatePublished - 2005

Bibliographical note

Work performed by University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/SR-510-36309

Keywords

  • glucosinolate
  • mustard
  • mustard meal
  • spring mustard

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