Uses of Some Euphorbiaceae Plants as Renewable Source of Energy

摘要

Increase in the number of automobile vehicles and the sophistication in the technology to hand in hand and scientists redeveloping innovative awareness to find out new energy sources from the underutilized potential diverse plant species. The shortage and depletion of petroleum have let us to reconsider and adopt alternative sources for fuels and chemicals. During the mid and later 70's scientist realized that biomass is the principle renewable resource capable of providing non-polluting, safe fuels and started to rely on plant biomass. Work has been started to devise various adaptive biomass systems in achieving greater use of biomass for fuel and other products. Plants with accumulation of useful products like latex, gums, resins are proved to be excellent source materials. We evaluated some large scale of underutilized multiuse plants as means to arrive at potentially renewable source. Maximum polyphenol as well as oil content was observed in E. antiquorum 8.8% and 5.4% respectively. Maximum content of hydrocarbon (1.0%) was found in F. elastica (leaf sample). The results show that in future E. antiquorum and F. elastica (leaf) would be alternative biorenewable of source of energy.