Table 1.
Experimental matrix of the full factorial design with three center points.
| Design | Run order | Coded levels | Uncoded levels | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent variables | Independent variables | |||||||
| T | m | C | T | m | C | |||
| (°C) | (g) | (mg/L) | ||||||
| Factorial design | 1 | − 1 | − 1 | − 1 | = | 30 | 0.1 | 10 |
| 2 | + 1 | − 1 | − 1 | = | 50 | 0.1 | 10 | |
| 3 | − 1 | + 1 | − 1 | = | 30 | 0.5 | 10 | |
| 4 | + 1 | + 1 | − 1 | = | 50 | 0.5 | 10 | |
| 5 | − 1 | − 1 | + 1 | = | 30 | 0.1 | 70 | |
| 6 | + 1 | − 1 | + 1 | = | 50 | 0.1 | 70 | |
| 7 | − 1 | + 1 | + 1 | = | 30 | 0.5 | 70 | |
| 8 | + 1 | + 1 | + 1 | = | 50 | 0.5 | 70 | |
| Central design | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 40 | 0.3 | 40 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 40 | 0.3 | 40 | |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 40 | 0.3 | 40 | |