Adsorption plays a bilateral role as a membrane separation mechanism. As a fouling mechanism, adsorption is unfavorable and should be controlled; however, affinity membranes are powerful adsorbents for the separation of proteins and heavy metals. Such aspects of 'adsorption mechanism' with respect to 'membrane technology' have not been tackled in literature and thus, they are aimed by the current book. To study adsorption, mathematical modeling has been employed as well as classical thermodynamics. In this book, parameters affecting adsorptive fouling including membrane characteristics (e.g.,...