Figure 5: Influence of the bead diameter on affinity breakthrough behavior shown as the variation of the dimensionless protein concentration in the bulk liquid, c/c0, the variation of the dimensionless protein concentration in the adsorbent pore liquid (average), ciAV/c0, and of the dimensionless the adsorbed phase (average), qiAV/qm, with the dimensionless column length, ZL, and the real time, t. (a1, b1 and c1) dp = 50 μm, (a2, b2 and c2) dp = 100 μm and (a3, b3 and c3) dp = 150 μm.