Errata – Second Edition – Optimization of Chemical Processes
By Edgar, Himmelblau and Lasdon
p.30 Exercise 1.11, exponent for right hand side of k = should be +1.5
p. 38 line 1, change “process” to “process model”
p. 48 line 10, delete two words “think who”
p.67 line 10, change Section 2.5 to 2.3
p. 93 Fig. 3.4, i = 0.05/12 = 0.004167
p. 95 Table 3.1, I should not be bold in r =
p. 109 Exercise 3.20, add to end of last line (i = 15%, n = 10 years)
p. 122 6th line, change Fig. 4.12 to 4.11
p.124 line 1, change (b) to each inequality constant is a concave function
p. 127 below line 13,
p. 144 Exercise 4.11(d) h1 = x12 + x22 + 3 = 0
p. 179 Exercise 5.14, change h to b in definitions. Also
p. 206 line 11,
next last line, “x* is the minimum…”
p. 215 Exercise 6.20 should read
Use as the starting point.
Exercise 6.21 should read
p. 227 4th line of text should read,
“then A contains a diagonal submatrix that contains elements
of +1 or -1”.
p. 258 Exercise 7.11 should read
min f = 6x1 + 5x2
Subject to: -2x1 + 5x2 -20
5x1 + x2 5
3x1 + 11x2 33
x1, x2 0
p. 259 Exercise 7.13 (b) last equation should be
x1 – 3x2 + f = 0
p.259 Problems 7.16 and 7.10 are the same (sorry).
p. 263 Problems 7.26 - 7.29 in Solution Manual correspond to
Problems 9.12 – 9.15 on pp. 378-379
p. 270 next line after eq. (c)
necessary conditions (8.17) and (8.18).
p. 278 Eq. (c) should be
p. 284 Equation after third line should read
In next equation change
in brackets (two places)
p. 290 1st line, “and equal
p. 302 in (8.66) and (8.67) use instead of
p. 303 in (8.70) and (8.71) use instead of
p. 339 in Exercise 8.30 (f) delete second (x3 – 1)2
p. 340 in Exercise 8.34, eq. (b) exponent should be a
p. 349 7th line, delete “(x11)”
8th line, delete “(x12)”
p. 357 line after 9.1, replace “when” by “which ensures that”
p. 438 Example 11.4, the second line in Eq. (g) should have for the
second term, -1267.8 HE2
p. 473 Eqn. (c) should be (not )
Eqn. (d) should be (not )
p. 477 Table E 13.4 A
in bottom table, compression ratio should be 1.12 for station 3
p. 495 Table E14.3D should be replaced (see below)
p. 546 Examples 15.3 and 15.4 can be found at the link,
www.mbhe.com/engcs/chemical/edgar
Table E14.3D
Constraint / Value at x* / Constraint / Value at x*1(i) / 0.038 / 7(o) / -4.59 10-3
2(j) / 60.89 / 8(p) / 3.09
3(k) / -0.22 10-3 / 9(c) / 0.036
4(l) / 1.910 / 10(d) / -3.0110-4
5(m) / 0.328 / 11(f) / -4.9310-4
6(n) / 1.2110-3
p.604 4th line from bottom, change “historial” to “historical”
p.627 Table EB.5B, change in line K
(D + H + I) to (D + H – I + J)