Jatropha Oil as a Substituent for Palm Oil in Biobased Polyurethane

Table 1

Chemical composition comparison of fatty acid profile.

Fatty acid	Jatropha oil^a	Palm oil^a,b		Coconut oil^b	Sunflower oil^b	Soybean oil^b	Pongamia oil^b
Caprylic acid (C8 : 0)	—	—		8	—	—	—
Capric acid (C10 : 0)	—	—		8	—	—	—
Lauric acid (C12 : 0)	—	—	—	48	0.5	—	—
Myristic acid (C14 : 0)	0.38	3.5	—	16.0	0.2	0.1	—
Palmitic acid (C16 : 0)	16.0	39.5	40.3	8.5	4.8	11.0	9.8
Palmitoleic acid (16 : 1)	1-3.5	—	—	—	0.8	0.1	—
Stearic acid (C18 : 0)	6-7	3.5	3.1	2.5	5.7	4.0	6.2
Oleic acid (C18 : 1)	42-43.5	46	43.3	6.5	20.6	23.4	72.2
Linoleic acid (C18 : 2)	33-34.5	7.5	13.2	2.0	66.2	53.2	11.8
Linolenic acid (C18 : 3)	0.8	—	—	—	0.8	7.8	—

^aTaken from Verma and Gaur [21]; ^btaken from Koh and Mohd Ghazi [22].