Table 2.

Experimental design layout and lycopene extraction yields (y) at 10, 25 and 40 °C for the ternary system ethyl lactate(1)–ethanol(2)–acetone(3). SO is the standard order of experiments and x_i is weight fraction of the ith component in the mixture.

SO	x 1	x 2	x 3	y (%)
				10 °C	25 °C	40 °C
1	1.000	0.000	0.000	8.14	16.78	40.46
2	0.667	0.333	0.000	5.99	10.99	31.50
3	0.667	0.000	0.333	14.96	36.19	53.46
4	0.333	0.667	0.000	2.93	6.50	21.74
5	0.333	0.333	0.333	5.92	13.83	17.43
6	0.333	0.000	0.667	27.83	57.09	54.46
7	0.000	1.000	0.000	4.69	4.28	15.04
8	0.000	0.667	0.333	16.26	22.82	50.32
9	0.000	0.333	0.667	31.34	53.08	79.55
10	0.000	0.000	1.000	35.55	60.84	78.81
11	0.667	0.167	0.167	8.22	22.14	45.62
12	0.167	0.667	0.167	4.39	10.17	28.24
13	0.167	0.167	0.667	22.55	53.13	50.30
14	1.000	0.000	0.000	5.20	19.88	41.84
15	0.000	1.000	0.000	4.07	6.17	15.04
16	0.000	0.000	1.000	34.45	62.00	81.65
17	0.333	0.333	0.333	4.61	19.73	17.59