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The capability of ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) to predict multicomponent competitive interactions between the following volatile organic chemicals was tested: chloroform, bromoform, trichloroethene, tetrachloroethene, 1,2-dibromoethane, and chlorodibromomethane. A total of seven mixtures that contained various combinations of two, three, and six solutes were tested for three commercially available activated carbons. The predictions were satisfactory for the 256 isotherm data that were collected. An error analysis was performed for various isotherms that are used to represent single solute data in IAST calculations. This analysis demonstrated that the Freundlich equation was sufficiently accurate in representing the data under certain simplifying assumptions, and the use of the Freundlich equation in IAST calculations resulted in a relatively straightforward expression to describe the multicomponent data. The multicomponent data for the mixtures were plotted as total organic halogen (TOX) and total organic carbon (TOC), and, when the mixture data were plotted in this manner, appeared to behave as a pseudo single solute. © 1985, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.
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