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Process Dynamics Errata

This document provides corrections to Process Dynamics and Control, 3rd edition. It lists over 50 corrections needed in the text, figures, equations and exercises. The corrections range from minor typographical errors to more significant issues like changing variable names, equation numbers, figures and exercise questions. The extensive list of corrections indicates multiple errors were found throughout the textbook that need addressing.

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Process Dynamics Errata

This document provides corrections to Process Dynamics and Control, 3rd edition. It lists over 50 corrections needed in the text, figures, equations and exercises. The corrections range from minor typographical errors to more significant issues like changing variable names, equation numbers, figures and exercise questions. The extensive list of corrections indicates multiple errors were found throughout the textbook that need addressing.

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Rev: 4-4-12
Corrections for Process Dynamics and Control, 3/e ISV


Page

Column Location Correction
vii Right 1
st
line Change professor to Professor
vii Right 2nd
t
line Add a at the beginning of the line
ix Left 4 lines from bottom Change senor into senior
6 Both Fig. 1.6 Move x
1
down so it is aligned with mass fraction.
14 Left Fig. 1.12 Y symbol should be larger (for return line or sewer)
40 Right Fig. E2.13 Raise the wavy line for the liquid level to this level:

44 Left Eq. (3.13)
Change a minus sign to plus sign:
2 2
w x' +
44 Left Eq. (3.14)
Change a minus sign to plus sign:
2 2
( ) w X s ' +
47 Left One line below (3-41) Substitute B(s) for B(s)
48 Left 3 lines above Example 3.4 Change U1 into U
55 Right Exercise 3.11 For item (i), replace R by R
1

56 Left Exercise 3.11 (b) Omit part (i) and re-number the other parts
56 Right Exercise 3.13 Replace the first equation by:

( )
1
( )
i v
dh
q C h
dt D h h
=
t

57 Exercise 3.15 In the 2
nd
equation, change D to + D. On the 5
th

line from the bottom, change 2.25 X = g/L to 4.5 g/L .
64 Left 2
nd
paragraph above Section 4.3 Lower Example 4.2 boundary line to include these 2
paragraphs
2

Page

Column Location Correction
65 Left Last equation in column
2
0.005 0.005
Replace by
s s

67 Right First line below section 4.4.1 title Change M/s into M/s
72 Right 3 lines from top Change Chapter 12 into Chapter 13
79 Right Second-last equation equation number (3-41) should read (3-40)
79 Right 2 lines from bottom Change Eq. 3-41 into Eq. 3-40
80 Right Caption for Fig. 5.2
Change equation to:
1
( 0) /
a
y t KMt t = =
82 Left Immediately below (5-21) Revise to: For K>0, (5-21) can be rearranged to the more
convenient form.
82 Left Immediately below (5-22) Add: For K<0, the inequality in (5-22) is reversed.
82 left 3 lines below (5-22) Change K > 0 to K < 0.
91 Right 2 lines from top Remove = after j
91 Left All three lines after Stability Criterion
heading
All text should be written in italics
96 Right Exercise 5.6 (e) Replace current text with:
Under what conditions can the process exhibit both a
negative gain and a right half plane zero?
98 Right Exercise 5.18 (a) Change hr to h (twice)
98 Right Exercise 5.18 (c) Omit approximate the time delay by a polynomial
approximation and.
99 Left Exercise 5.20 Add: For this exercise, T and h are the outputs and Q
and w are the inputs.
99 Left Exercise 5.20 For Fig. E5.20, add the symbol, h, for the liquid level
3

Page

Column Location Correction
106 Right Eq. 6-12 The right-hand side of equation should read:
2
1
min ( )
N
i i
i
Y y
|
=


106 Right Eq. 6-12
Replace by:

111 Right Fig. 6.10 The x-axis from t=0 to t= should be made thicker
(same style of the curve)
116 Left Caption for Table 6.3 Change Example 6.6 into Example 6.5
121 Right Table E6.9 For t = 6, change 13 to 1.3
122 Right Exercise 6.14 Move (u) in the 8
th
line to the beginning of the 6
th

line.
122 Right Exercise 6.15 (a) Change 17.0 to 17.9
131 Left Fig. 7.9
The central block should read:
1
I
I
s
s
t
t
+

131 Left Six lines below (7-16) Omit: adjust the
138 Left 1st sentence in Exercise 7.2 Replace with:
8.2 A physically realizable form of the ideal PD
controller transfer function in Eq. 7-11 is given by

where 0.05 < _ < 0.2.
139 Left Exercise 7.6 Change the first line to: If the measured input to a PI

149 Right Fig. 8.9 Both axes labels should be u and p, not y and u
150 Right 9 lines from bottom Replace Eq 8-2 by Eq 8-4
4

Page

Column Location Correction
150 Right 8 lines from bottom
Replace (50/127)
38.1
by (50/127) /
38.1

150 Right Test in the Guideline All text should be written in italics
152 Right Above (8-9) Replace Eq. 8-2 with Eq. 8-4
152 Right Below (8-9) Replace Eq. 8-7 with Eq. 8-8
154 Left 4
th
line of Section 8.4.1 Replace measured error with measured value
175 Right Exercise 9.5 Add at end:
Failure rates (faults per year):
Solenoid switch:
S
= 0.01
Level switch:
LS
= 0.4
Level alarm:
A
= 0.2
175 Right Exercise 9.7 Add: Assume that the failure rate for the solenoid
switch and valve is = 0.42 faults per year.
179 Left In definition of G
m
, second line Replace add with hyphen
183 right Equation 10-36 Insert K
p
before K
m
and after K
v
in both numerator and
denominator
198 Left Item #9
1 2
10 gal / min 15 gal / min , = q q =
199 Left Item 5 in Exercise 10.8, second line Change (= ) to (=5)
209 Right 4 lines from bottom D should be italicized; D
227 Left Last line of #1 Change 11.3.3 into 11.3.1
229 Left Exercise 11.7 (a) (i) Omit modified and change 11.5 to 11.1.
229 Left Exercise 11.7 (a) (ii) Change 11.6 to 11.4
5

Page

Column Location Correction
230 Right Exercise 11.13 (b) Change 11.6 to 11.4
245 Right Parkinson et al. reference Change in press to 23, 185 (2010)
246 Right Exercise 12.7 In Fig. E12.7, change T
co
to T
c0

257 Bottom center rectangle Change

to -
264 Left Example 13.7, 1
st
line below Solution Change Fig. 13.7 to Fig. 13.11. Also, the caption
for Fig. 13.11 should cite Example 13.7.
265 Right Example 13.8, 2
nd
line Replace Table 11.6 by Table 11.4
275 Right Eqs. 14-4, 14-5, and 14-6 All symbols should have an overbar.
276 Left Eq. 14-7 The equation should read:
( )[ ( ) ]
sp
sp sp
F t z t x
D(t)
y x


280 Right 2 lines above (14-33) Change (14-32) to (14-21)
285 Right Figure E 14.4 Add valve symbol to stream labeled q
2

287 Left Exercise 14.12 (part c) Change the G
d
transfer function to:
2
4
2.82
4.3 1
s
O
d
c
e
G
FG s

= =
+

310 Left Exercise 15.2, second line Change K
c2
=5 to K
c2
=4; in part (c), second line, set
K
c2
=4 (not 5)
321 right Eq. (17-19), 1
st
line Replace y(k-1) by y
F
(k-1)

339 Right Exercise 16.13(c)
21 12 21 12
Replace ( ) and ( ) by ( ) and ( ) D s D s T s T s

349 Right Eq. (17-19), 1
st
line Replace y(k-1) by y
F
(k-1)

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Page

Column Location Correction
352 Left Equation 17-21 Index of summation should be k (not n)
478 Right Eq. 23-7 Right hand side of equation should be preceded by a
minus sign -
481 Left Exercise 23.6, equation at bottom of
column
Missing carriage return insert between E
1
and
P*
481 Right Exercise 23.6, part b Replace 4 occurrences of P* with (P*/P
T
)
481 Right Exercise 23.6, part b Edit text as follows: V
2
in the system, P
T
is the
total protein concentration (in all forms), and K
1

481 Right Exercise 23.6, part b Edit text as follows: plot the steady-state locus of
solutions for (P*/P
T
) versus
I-1 Left Before first line Insert: abnormal event management, 169
I-4 Middle For item gain Add a sub-item: steady-state, 46
A2 Right Below Eq. A-14 Change f
i
(0) to f
(i)
(0)
A62 Left Eq. A-62 In the denominator, change i to i!
A25 Right 4
th
line under B 3.3 SCADA should not be italicized
A49 First line in Column General Information Change top down to bottom upward.
A49 Line Component balance for Any Stage above
Feed
Change 19 to 20
A49 Next line after Component balance for Any
Stage above Feed
Add and x
21
= x
D
by convention
A49 Insert line after Component balance for Any
Stage below Feed
Add line where y
0
= y
B
by convention
A49 Table F.1 See revised version below; corrections are shown in
red.

7

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.


r
A
= k
R
H
R
z
Reactor Model:

dH
R
dt
= F
0
+ D F (= 0 for perfect reactor level control)


d(H
R
z)
dt
= F
0
z
0
+ Dx
D
Fz + r
A


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:


y
i
=
ox
i
1+ x
i

Column Model:
Reflux Drum:

dH
D
dt
=V R D (= 0 for perfect receiver level control)


d(H
D
x
D
)
dt
=Vy
20
Rx
D
Dx
D
Any stage above feed:

H
S
dx
i
dt
= L(x
i+1
x
i
) +V(y
i1
y
i
) for 13s i s 20
8

where

L = R and

x
21
= x
D
by convention
Feed stage:

H
S
dx
12
dt
= Lx
13
' L x
12
) +V(y
11
y
12
) + Fz
where

' L = L+ F
Any stage below feed:

H
S
dx
j
dt
= ' L (x
j +1
x
J
) +V(y
j 1
y
j
) for 1s j s11
where

y
0
= y
B
by convention
Reboiler:

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


d(H
B
x
B
)
dt
= ' L x
1
Vy
B
Bx
B

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