Extraction of Municipal Sewage Sludge Lipids Using Supercritical CO₂ for Biodiesel Production: Mathematical and Kinetics Modeling

Table 1

Estimated the kinetics parameters of the modified Gompertz equation for the extraction of lipids from municipal sewage sludge (MSS), with varying scCO₂ pressures.

Pressure (MPa)	A (%)	k m (min^−1)	λ (min)	t t (min)	R ^2
10	16.32	0.184	8.7	97.39	0.9938
20	24.16	0.319	7.6	83.33	0.9921
30	26.36	0.369	4.9	76.34	0.9877
40	27.78	0.454	3.6	64.79	0.9863