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MWH’s Water Treatment: Principles And Design, 3rd Ed

Title page: After David Hand’s name, replace “Michigan Technical University” with “Michigan
Technological University”.

Page 23: In list of variables after Eq. 2-2, replace “nN = moles of solute N” with “nN = moles of
solvent”.

Page 69: In Problem 2-11, change the value for SO42- in the problem statement from “96.0
mg/L” to “144.0 mg/L”.

Page 69: In Problem 2-12, change the value for K+ in the problem statement from “?” to “2.0
mg/L”.

Page 408: below Table 7-3, units for ionic conductance (λ) should be cm2⋅S/eq instead of
cm2⋅s/eq (capital S for Siemens instead of lowercase s for seconds).

Page 602: Last sentence of first paragraph, replace “As shown on Fig 9-19, microscale mixing is
the dominant flocculation mechanism for particles with size less than 0.1 μm, macroscale mixing
is the dominant particle collision mechanism for the size range of 0.1 to 30 μm, and differential
settling is the primary collision mechanism for particles of size greater than 30 μm.” with “As
shown on Fig 9-19, the dominant flocculation mechanism is microscale flocculation for particles
smaller than about 0.035 μm and macroscale flocculation for larger particles at these conditions.”

Page 626: In Example 9-9, in equation at the top of the page and in step d, replace the capital V
with lower case vR.

Page 626: In Example 9-9, in step c, replace “Velocity of paddles =” with “Velocity of paddles =
vR =”

Page 627: 14th line of text has the parameter Gt with the t subscripted. The t should not be
subscripted.

Page 627: 2nd line from bottom. Replace “…related to head loss by (∆P = ρg∆H). The
RMS…” with “…related to head loss by (∆P = ρg∆H), the RMS…”

Page 639: In reference for Trussell, replace “Predesign Studies (ed), I. R. S.” with “Chapter 3,
Predesign Studies, in R.L. Sanks (ed),”

Page 868: Above Eq. 12-22, replace “using Eq, 12-8, Eq. 12-21 can be written” with “using Eq.
12-8 and substituting Eq. 12-21, Eq. 12-20 can be written”.

Page 966, Figure 13-18: The captions for panels (a) and (b) should be reversed.

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Page 992, Figure 13-32: Longwave UV should be labeled as UV-A instead of UV-C.

Page 1008: fourth line, replace capital K with lower case k.

Page 1019: First line of Problem 13-9, change the word “Segragated” to Segregated”.

Page 1107: In Problem 14-3, replace “for benzene.” with “for benzene using ∆H 0dis = 35.44
kJ/mol and Kc = 357,678”.

Page 1108: In Problem 14-4, replace “for chloroform.” with “for chloroform using ∆H 0dis =
38.53 kJ/mol and Kc = 940,789”.

Page 1126: Just below Figure 15-2, revise the size designations for various pores as follows:
Micropores: dp < 2 nm
Mesopores: 2 nm < dp < 50 nm
Macropores: 50 nm < dp

Page 1142, Figure 15-6: In the caption, replace “1,1-trichloroethane” with “1,1,1-
trichlorethane”.

Page 1145: In Table 15-6, change reference from “Haist-Gulde (1988)” to “Haist-Gulde (1991)”
in 3 locations.

Page 1145: In Table 15-6, change reference from “Dobbs and Carbon” to “Dobbs and Cohen” in
8 places.

Page 1176: On the right side of Figure 15-18, the label should say “surface diffusion” instead of
“suface diffusion”.

Page 1244: In Example 15-14, in the last line, the solution to step 4 should be 17.4 cm instead of
174 cm.

Page 1256: In Problem 15-19, replace “Assume no NOM fouling is important.” with “Assume
no NOM fouling is important and SPDFR = 4.”

Page 1257: In Problem 15-20, add the sentence “Assume SPDFR = 1 when NOM is present.” at
the end of the problem statement.

Page 1257: In Problem 15-21, add the phrase “and SPDFR = 1 when NOM is present.” at the
end of the problem statement.

Page 1257: In Problem 15-22, replace “EBCT of 1.0 s” with “EBCT of 40 s”. Also, add the
sentence “Assume SPDFR = 16.0 for gas-phase operation.” at the end of the problem statement.

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Page 1259: Before reference for Halsey, add “Haist-Gulde, B. (1991) Zur Adsorption von
Spurenverunreinigungen aus Oberflächenwässern, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Karlsrush,
Germany.

Page 1390: In Step 1a of Example 17-5, replace “Eqs. 17-36, 17-37, and 17-35” with “Eqs. 17-
37, 17-38, and 17-36”.

Page 1390: In Step 1b of Example 17-5, replace “Eq. 17-41” with “Eq 17-34”.

Page 1409: Last line of Problem 17-17, replace “and DNaCl = 0.8 × 10-9 m2/s (from Table 7-4 in
Chap. 7).” with “and DNaCl = 1.58 × 10-9 m2/s (from Table 7-1 in Chap. 7).”

Page 1450: In the title to Example 18-6, replace “Efflvent” with “Effluent”.

Page 1450: In the problem statement in Example 18-6, replace “The alkalinity, pH, and DOC
concentrations are 400 mg/L as CaCO3, 7.5, and 0.7 mg/L, respectively.” with “The HCO3–, pH,
and DOC concentrations are 488 mg/L, 7.5, and 0.7 mg/L, respectively.”

Page 1452: In the line for the bicarbonate concentration (third line from the top)

 HCO3−  (400 mg/L)

=
replace: = 0.008 mol/L
  0 (50 g/mol)(1000 mg/g)

 HCO3−  (488 mg/L)

with:= = 0.008 mol/L
  0 (61 g/mol)(1000 mg/g)

Page 1468: Fourth line, replace “DCBP” with “DBCP”.

Page 1521: In Problem 19-9, add “NH3-N concentration = 0.005 mg/L,” after “DOC
concentration = 3.2 mg/L”.

Page 1679: Replace Figure 21-19 with the revised figure below.

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Page 1695: In Problem 21-3, remove the sentence “Assume the TSS is equal to 12 mg/L.”

Page 1696: In Problem 21-12, replace “as described in Problem 21-5” with “as described in
Problem 21-6.”

Page 1862: Last line, the term 1.002 should be outside the parentheses. i.e., change the last 2
lines to be:

For 20 < T< 100 °C, µ w (1.002 × 10−3 )(10 B )

=

1.3272(20 − T ) − 0.001053(T − 20) 2

where: B=
T + 105

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