Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper discussed three different seawater desalination processes, multistage flash, multi-effect distillation, and reverse osmosis. Also, the authors evaluated combining concentrated solar power or photovoltaic to the aforementioned three technologies. The conclusion is a solar-powered system can not only reduce carbon footprint significantly but also have some economic advantages.

1. In the abstract, is it appropriate to claim solar energy is a supplier of unlimited energy?

2. In figure 1, don't use abbreviations.

3. Is it possible to re-draw figure 4 to match the style of figures 2 and 3? The scaling of the figure is off.

4. Add a table to summarize the advantages/disadvantages of three desalination systems

5. The discussion below line 424 lacks logic. 

 

 

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

This article discusses a fascinating topic, mainly desalination, combined with renewable energy systems, but I still have some suggestions.

1. There are typos in this manuscript. It is suggested that the spelling and symbols should be re-checked in this manuscript.

2. There mark is an error in Figure 2. Please correct it.

3. Figure 4 has abbreviations that need to be added to explain (such as TK-100, P-100, VFD…).

 4. This manuscript is a review, but most references are described in the text, and figures should be added. Authors can refer to the following article format to modify.

 

Nabil Karamia; Nazih Moubayedb; Rachid Outbibc. General review and classification of different MPPT Techniques. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 68, Part 1, February 2017, Pages 1-18.

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Accept in present form

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

1. The bottom lines are to be deleted from Lines 165, 189, 206, 295, and 315.

2. Figure 2 shows the  T=112C is T=112 degrees?

3. Line 415 has a typo.

Author Response

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