Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Oil Extraction from Jatropha curcas L. Using Ethanol as a Solvent

Table 1

Analysis of variance for the maximum yield of Jatropha oil extracted (%) at different temperatures (), moisture contents (), and average particle sizes ().

Source of variation	DF	Sum of squares	Mean square	value
	3	1661.22	553.74	1190.33
	1	648.56	648.56	1394.17
	2	2035.08	1017.54	2187.33
×	3	0.63	0.21	0.45
×	6	14.09	2.35	5.05
×	2	533.59	266.80	573.51
× ×	6	4.27	0.71	1.53
C.V. (%)	1.69

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Nonsignificant ().