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the dialog box shown in Figure9.43 opens. Select “Target” for “Goal”, enter
“399” for “Lower”, and enter “400” for “Target” and “401” for “Upper”. (The
laboratory aims for a target temperature of 400 units.) Click on “OK” and the
optimal solution (X: 20%, Y: 35.6443%, and Z: 44.3557%) shown in Figure9.44
is the result.
FIGURE 9.38
Quadratic terms for fuel Zeo mixture design.
Analysis of Variance for Temperature (component proportions)
Source DF Seq SS Adj SS Adj MS F P
Regression 5 14933.7 14933.71 2986.74 416.36 0.000
Linear 2 5686.8 109.00 54.50 7.60 0.043
Quadratic 3 9246.9 9246.93 3082.31 429.69 0.000
X*Y 1 5775.6 5851.62 5851.62 815.74 0.000
X*Z 1 2346.0 2365.84 2365.84 329.81 0.000
Y*Z 1 1125.3 1125.35 1125.35 156.88 0.000
Residual Error 4 28.7 28.69 7.17
Total 9 14962.4
FIGURE 9.39
ANOVA output for fuel Zeo.
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FIGURE 9.40
Selection of “Response Optimizer” for fuel Zeo.
FIGURE 9.41
Available response variable for optimization for fuel Zeo.
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FIGURE 9.42
Selection of response variable for optimization for fuel Zeo.
Temperature
FIGURE 9.43
Entry of bounds for temperature.
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9.4 Design and Verify Phases
Based on the results of the analyze phase, fuel Neo is designed to contain
only R (100%), and fuel Zeo is designed to contain 20% of X, 35.6443% of Y,
and 44.3557% of Z.
The laboratory runs additional experiments with the optimal proportions
of the respective components to test and verify the sulfation level for Neo
and the temperature for Zeo.
High
Cur
Low
D
1.0000
Optimal
Temperature
Target: 400.0
y = 400.0
d = 1.0000
Composite
Desirability
1.0000
[ ]:Y
60.0
[35.6443]
20.0
[ ]:Z
60.0
[44.3557]
20.0
[ ]:X
60.0
[20.0]
20.0
FIGURE 9.44
Optimal amounts of fuel Zeo components.

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