Crop
Oil productivity
(kg/ha/year)
Conversion
(%)
Biodiesel productivity
(kg/ha/year)
Land area needed
(thousand ha)
Percentage of arable land
in Malaysia (%)
Soybean
375
95
356
1235
68.3
Rapeseed
1000
95
950
463
25.6
Jatropha
2000
98
1960
224
12.4
Palm oil
5000
94
4700
93
5.1
Algae
a
75,000
80
60,000
7
0.4
a
50% oil (by wt) in algae biomass.
Table 6:
Comparison of land dependent biodiesel production efficiencies from crop oils for Malaysia’s B5 mandate [53].
