Table 1. Factors, Levels, and Extractions at Various Levels of Factors.
| factors | levels |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 | 0 | -1 | |
| HCl concentration (X1), % v/v | 10 | 6 | 2 |
| time (X2), h | 4 | 2.5 | 1 |
| temperature (X3), °C | 80 | 65 | 50 |
| experimental
results | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| levels |
extraction
(%) |
|||
| X1 | X2 | X3 | Sm | Co |
| 10 | 1 | 80 | 86.72 | 85.81 |
| 10 | 4 | 80 | 88.59 | 99.96 |
| 10 | 1 | 50 | 40.50 | 53.13 |
| 10 | 4 | 50 | 61.17 | 60.11 |
| 2 | 1 | 80 | 18.19 | 17.54 |
| 2 | 4 | 80 | 42.36 | 42.48 |
| 2 | 1 | 50 | 15.61 | 16.39 |
| 2 | 4 | 50 | 31.48 | 25.65 |
| Base Level Experiments | ||||
| 6 | 2.5 | 65 | 50.75 | 46.91 |
| 6 | 2.5 | 65 | 50.23 | 47.46 |
| 6 | 2.5 | 65 | 50.32 | 51.09 |