Biosynthesis of Extracellular Polymeric Substances by the Marine Bacterium Saccharophagus degradans under Different Nutritional Conditions

Table 4

Kinetic parameters for EPS production from glucose (2 L Bioreactor; C/N ratio, 100; medium, NL) calculated using KaleidaGraph software (V4.0).

	First phase		Second phase
	: k (h^−1)		(h^−1)
Consumption
Glucose	0.1970	0.9974	0.1456	0.9913
	0.1752	0.9813	7.7 × 10^−4	0.9738
	0.2279	0.9976	3.9 × 10^−4	0.8377
Production
Biomass	0.0895	0.9871	0.0189	0.9574
EPS	0.0134	0.9829	0.0896	0.9784

Gompertz model (0–27 h).
Lineal model (28–72 h).