“…Therefore, the current mathematical models face great challenges in their practical applications, especially, to simulations of multicolumn or timevariant nonlinear chromatographic systems. The nonequilibrium thermodynamic separation theory (NTST) [14][15][16] involved the concepts and principles of nonequilibrium thermodynamics [17][18][19], local thermodynamic equilibrium assumption [19][20][21], Eulerian and Lagrangian description [22,23], time-variant system [24], Markovian representations [25], and state-space representation [26][27][28][29]. In NTST, the modern control science and the linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics is penetrated into the nonlinear chromatographic theories [4,9].…”