“…Experimental Design (ED) is an effective statistical approach to investigate and to optimize multivariate processes. To date, many types of LCB have been pretreated by RTILs and optimized by Response Surface Methodology (RSM) (Bajaj and Wani, 2011; Fu and Mazza, 2011b; Tan et al, 2011; Yoon et al, 2012; Lee et al, 2013; Sidik et al, 2013; Qiu et al, 2014; Singh et al, 2015; Wang et al, 2015; Li et al, 2017; Saha et al, 2017; Oliveira Ribeiro et al, 2018; Trinh et al, 2018). Only very few research groups have investigated the optimum conditions for RTIL-based pretreatment using another statistical design (Elgharbawy et al, 2017; Papa et al, 2017; Vergara et al, 2018).…”