Research Article
Response Surface Methodology for Biodiesel Production Using Calcium Methoxide Catalyst Assisted with Tetrahydrofuran as Cosolvent
Table 4
Numerical optimization of the reaction conditions using RSM.
| Solution number | | | | | % FAME conversion | Desirability | |
| 1 | 11.60 | 2.83 | 100.14 | 8.65 | 99.43 | 0.999 | Selected | 2 | 11.61 | 2.82 | 100.14 | 8.65 | 99.42 | 0.998 | | 3 | 11.61 | 2.83 | 100.14 | 8.63 | 99.42 | 0.998 | | 4 | 11.61 | 2.82 | 100.14 | 8.64 | 99.42 | 0.997 | | 5 | 11.58 | 2.83 | 100.14 | 8.34 | 99.39 | 0.974 | |
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