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Rev:  1‐3‐12 

Corrections for the First Printing of SEMD, 3/e  Note:  For additional corrections, see two documents:  

1. Corrections for the 2nd Printing of SEMD, 3/e 2. Corrections for the 3rd and Later Printings of SEMD, 3/e  

 The printing number is the last number in the sequence of numbers at the bottom of the copyright page. 

  

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vii Right 1st line Change “professor” to “Professor” vii Right 2ndt line Add “a” at the beginning of the line ix Left 7 lines from bottom Change “senor” into “senior” 13 Left Fig. 1.12 Y symbol should be larger (for return line or sewer) 42 Left Entry 6 in Table 3.1 Change to e-t/ 50 Right Fig. 3.3b The x-axis from t=0 to t=t0 should be made thicker

(same style of the curve) 50 Left One line below Eq. 3-91 Change (3-93) to (3-91) 51 Left One line below solution Change (3-100) to (3-98) 53 Right One line below Eq. 3-119 Change (3-121) to (3-119) 53 Right One line below Eq. 3-125 Change (3-127) to (3-125) 62 Right One line below (4-41) Substitute B(s) for B(s) 63 Right 3 lines from bottom Change “U1” into “U” 66 – Fig. 4.5 (including caption) Remove gray background 71 Right Exercise 4.11 (b) Omit part (i) and re-number the other parts 71 Left Exercise 4.11 For item (i), replace R by R1

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72 Left Exercise 4.13 Replace the first equation by: 1

( ) i vdh q C hdt D h h

79 Left Right below gray background, from “The largest…” to “… constant level”

Insert gray background

80 – Figure 5.6 (including caption) Insert gray background 82 Left First line below section 5.4.1 title Change “M/s” into “M/s” 86 Right One line before end of gray background Change “Chapter 13” into “Chapter 14”

94 Left Fourth line equation number (4-41) should read (4-40)

94 Left Third line of paragraph starting with “It is convenient…”

Change “Eq. 4-41” into “Eq. 4-40”

94 Right Caption for Fig. 6.2 Change equation to: 1( 0) /ay t KM

104 Right Example 6.7, two lines under, A = Remove = after j

104 Left Last three lines All text should be written in italics.

111 Right Exercise 6.18 (a) Change “hr” to “h” (twice)

111 Right Exercise 6.18 (c) Omit “…approximate the time delay by a polynomial approximation and”.

112 Left Exercise 6.20 Add: For this exercise, T and h are the outputs and Q and w are the inputs.

112 Left Exercise 6.20 For Fig. E6.20, add the symbol, h, for the liquid level

118 Right Eq. 7-12 The right-hand side of equation should read: 2

1

ˆmin ( )N

i ii

Y y

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123 Left Fig. 7.10 The x-axis from t=0 to t=θ should be made thicker (same style of the curve)

127 Left Caption for Table 7.3 Change “Example 7.6” into “Example 7.5” 132 Right Table E7.9 For t = 6, change 13 to 1.3 133 Right Exercise 7.15 (a) Change 17.0 to 17.9 133 Left Exercise 7.14 Move “(u)” in the 8th line to the beginning of the 6th

line. 140 Right Fig. 8.9

The central block should read: 1 I

I

ss

148 Left Exercise 8.6 Change the first line to: If the measured input to a PI …

159 Left Last four lines (“Guideline) All text should be written in italics

161 – Fig. 9.14 (including caption) Insert gray background

182 Right Exercise 10.5 Add at end: Failure rates (faults per year):

Solenoid switch: S = 0.01 Level switch: LS = 0.4 Level alarm: A = 0.2

182 Right Exercise 10.7 Add: Assume that the failure rate for the solenoid switch and valve is = 0.42 faults per year.

186 Right In definition of Gm, second line Replace “add” with hyphen

201 Left Fig. 11.27 (including caption) Insert gray background

205 Left Item 5 in Exercise 11.8, second line Change (= τ) to (=5τ)

225 – Fig. 12.13 (including caption) Insert gray background

232 Left 3 lines from top Change “12.3.3” into “12.3.1”

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233 Right Exercise 12.7 (a) (i) Omit “modified” and change 12.5 to 12.1.

233 Right Exercise 12.7 (a) (ii) Change 12.6 to 12.4

235 Left Exercise 12.13 (b) Change 12.6 to 12.4

250 Left Exercise 13.7 In Fig. E13.7, change “Tco” to “Tc0”

261 Bottom center rectangle Change – ωθ to - ωθ

277 Right Eqs. 15-4, 15-5, and 15-6 All symbols should have an overbar.

277 Right Eq. 15-7 The equation should read: ( )[ ( ) ]sp

sp sp

F t z t xD(t)

y x

282 Left Line above (15-33) Change (15-32) to (15-21)

288 Left Exercise 15.12 (part c) Change the Gd transfer function to: 2

42.824.3 1

sO

d

c eGFG s

474 Right Eq. 24-7 Right hand side of equation should be preceded by a minus sign “-“

477 Left Exercise 24.6, equation at bottom of column

Missing carriage return – insert between “E1” and “P*”

477 Right Exercise 24.6, part b Replace 4 occurrences of P* with (P*/PT)

477 Right Exercise 24.6, part b Edit text as follows: “…V2 in the system, PT is the total protein concentration (in all forms), and K1…”

477 Right Exercise 24.6, part b Edit text as follows: “…plot the steady-state locus of solutions for (P*/PT) versus…”

507 Left Before first line Insert: abnormal event management, 176

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509 Left, Middle

Place in alphabetical order: eukaryote, event tree analysis, error analysis

510 Middle For item “gain” Add a sub-item:” steady-state, 62”

510 Middle Place in alphabetical order: Heat shock response, intracranial pressure

511 Left Place in alphabetical order: ligands

G5 First line in Column General Information Change “top down” to “…bottom upward.”

G5 Line Component balance for Any Stage above Feed

Change “19” to “20”

G5 Next line after Component balance for Any Stage above Feed Add “… and x21 = xD by convention”

G5 Insert line after Component balance for Any Stage below Feed

Add line “where y0 = yB by convention”

G5 Table G.1 See revised version below; corrections are shown in red.

 

Table G.1 Dynamic Model for Reactor/Distillation Column Plant (Symbol definitions and values provided in Table G.2) 

Reactor 

General Information:  Reaction:  A  B 

  Reaction rate expression is first order in reactant A. 

    rA kR HR z    

Reactor Model: dHR

dt F0 D F        (= 0 for perfect reactor level control) 

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 d(HRz)

dt F0z0 DxD Fz rA  

                   

Column  

General Information:  Saturated liquid feed is to 12th stage (of 20) numbered from the bottom upward. 

  Equimolal overflow is assumed. 

  A is the more volatile component; assume equilibrium holds for each stage: 

    yi xi

1 xi

 

Column Model: 

    Reflux Drum: dHD

dtV R D       (= 0 for perfect receiver level control) 

 d(HD xD )

dtVy20 RxD DxD  

    Any stage above feed:    HSdxi

dt L(xi1 xi) V (yi1 yi) for 13 i  20 

        where  L R and  x21 xD by convention  

   Feed stage:  HSdx12

dt Lx13 L x12) V (y11 y12) Fz  

        where  L L F  

   Any stage below feed:  HS

dx j

dt L (x j1 xJ ) V (y j1 y j ) for 1 j 11 

         where  y0 yB by convention 

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    Reboiler: dHB

dt L V B       (= 0 for perfect reboiler level control) 

 d(HB xB )

dt L x1 VyB BxB