“…An alternative approach which can be used to describe the adsorption phenomena of a multicomponent system is to assume that there is total competition between target protein and other components in the mixture for adsorption to all the accessible sites of the immobilized ligand. The extension of the Langmuir equation proposed by various investigators [Huang and Horvath, 1987a,b; Katti and Guiochon, 1988; Jacobson et al, 1990; Katti et al, 1990; Ruzgas et al, 1990; Beelaram and Sadana, 1994; Srivastava and Tyagi, 1995; Mao and Hearn, 1996; Hortacsu and McCoy, 1996; Hossain and Do, 1996b] for the adsorption of two component mixtures can be expressed as where the various terms are defined above and refer to adsorbates 1 and 2, respectively. The generalized expression of this model for the adsorption of the various components within a multicomponent mixture takes the following form where the terms a = bq m and b = K a are defined above and the subscripts i and j refer to the adsorbates i and j , respectively.…”