Multicomponent liquid phase adsorption in fixed bed

Although multicomponent, liquid phase adsorption is often encountered in industrial application, most of the studies concerning fixed‐bed sorption processes have been dealt primarily with systems containing one adsorbable species. The present work provides a numerical solution to the fixed‐bed, multicomponent adsorption problem, taking into account both separately or in combination the effect of liquid and/or solid phase mass transfer resistance and of variation of the assumed governing adsorption isotherm. Numerical solutions of several example problems are presented and compared with results based on equilibrium theory and a simplified method developed by Cooney and co‐workers previously (1972).