RESEARCH ARTICLE
Gray Box Modeling of Supercritical Nimbin Extraction from Neem Seeds Using Methanol as Co-Solvent
G. Zahedi*, b, S. Azizia, T. Hatamia, L. Sheikhattara
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 4
First Page: 21
Last Page: 30
Publisher ID: TOCENGJ-4-21
DOI: 10.2174/1874123101004010021
Article History:
Received Date: 01/08/2009Revision Received Date: 19/10/2009
Acceptance Date: 08/12/2009
Electronic publication date: 25/3/2010
Collection year: 2010
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Abstract
In this paper yield of nimbin extraction from neem seeds using supercritical carbon dioxide with methanol as co-solvent has been studied. In this case mass transfer coefficient in terms of Sherwood number has been estimated by a neuro-fuzzy network. Then the estimated mass transfer coefficient has been fed to the system model which is set of partial differential equations. The proposed gray box model was validated with experimental data.