Research Article

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

Table 2

Estimated kinetics parameters of the modified Gompertz equation for MSS lipids’ extraction at various scCO2 temperatures.

Temperature (oC)A (%)k m (min−1)λ (min)t t (min)R 2

3216.320.1648.7108.210.9938
4023.420.2138.1102.050.9294
6026.180.3147.891.170.9573
8027.530.3657.282.6240.9984