Effects of Experimental Conditions on Extraction Yield of Extracellular Polymeric Substances by Cation Exchange Resin

Table 2

Estimated kinetic parameters (𝑏, 𝐶_max, 𝑇_1/2) based on the best fit of the empirical model for different resin doses. The stirring intensity is 600 RPM.

CER doses	Kinetic parameters	Estimated values	𝑅^2 values
	𝑏 (hr^-1)	0.17±0.02
30 g/gVSS	𝐶max (g/gVSS)	53.29±2.74	0.9974
	𝑇1/2 (hour)	3.71
	𝑏	0.16±0.017		This study
70 g/gVSS	𝐶max	63.10±2.47	0.9900
	𝑇1/2	3.99
	𝑏	0.19±0.023
100 g/gVSS	𝐶max	64.80±3.81	0.9982
	𝑇1/2	3.07
	𝑏 (hr^-1)	0.27
65 g/gVSS	𝐶max (g/gVSS)	40.2	0.9963
	𝑇1/2 (hour)	2.8		Frølund et al. [19]
	𝑏	0.25
85 g/gVSS	𝐶max	45.1	0.9871
	𝑇1/2	2.6