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Treatment of Coal Fly Ash and Environmentally Friendly Use with Rubber in Cable Wires as Insulation Material

Sustainability 2020, 12(12), 5218; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12125218
by Zawar Hussain, Gao Lizhen * and Muhammad Moeen
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Sustainability 2020, 12(12), 5218; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12125218
Submission received: 25 May 2020 / Revised: 10 June 2020 / Accepted: 22 June 2020 / Published: 26 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

Please consider some comments from my side:

 

  1. As presented, the English of your manuscript must be improved before resubmission. There are problems with sentence structure, verb tense, and clause construction.
  2. I think the figures in your manuscript are not clear enough, and there are some numbers cannot be seen clearly, especially in Figure 1, 2, 3.
  3. We have noticed that there was Chinese appeared in the background of Figure 1, please re-submit Figure 1. And it is recommended that you list the data of recent years in Figure 1, instead of the data before 2013.

Author Response

Response to Reviewer 1 Comments

 

 

 

Point 1: As presented, the English of your manuscript must be improved before resubmission. There are problems with sentence structure, verb tense, and clause construction.

Response 1: Thank you for your comment. We rechecked the manuscript and improved the English grammar of the manuscript.

 

Point 2: I think the figures in your manuscript are not clear enough, and there are some numbers cannot be seen clearly, especially in Figure 1, 2, 3.

Response 2: Thank you for good response, I checked the figures and changed with good clear result in Figure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

 

Point 3: We have noticed that there was Chinese appeared in the background of Figure 1, please re-submit Figure 1. And it is recommended that you list the data of recent years in Figure 1, instead of the data before 2013.

 

Response 3: We have changed the figure 1 as your comment and there is no Chinese appeared in the background of the figure and we separated the figure according to data.

Reviewer 2 Report

Manuscript ID: Sustainability-830298

Treatment of coal fly ash and environmentally friendly use with rubber in cables wire as insulation material

 

There is a lot of chaos in the technical parameters units. This needs improvement. An article file is attached. Correct it carefully. According to the rules for writing units.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Response to Reviewer 2 Comments

 

Point 1: D97=3-75 µm as use D97=3-75 m

 

Response 1: Thank you for your comment, this is coal fly ash small particle measurement, I measured in µm unit not in m.

 

Point 2: Need corrections in units.

Response 2: Thank you for your response, I have changed the units in the following line No. 176-181, 213, 214. 286 and in 341.

 

Point 3: Need correction in units.

Response 3: Thank you for your comments, I have corrected this mistake in units in line No. 350-371, 393, 406-425, 433, 434, 498, 511, 513, 517, 519, 524-530, 537-539, and in line No. 525.

 

Point 4: 20℃?

Response 4: Thank you for your nice comment, correction has been done in line No. 328.

 

Point 5: Need correction in unit in table 3 and in figure 8B, 8D, 8E

Response 5: Thank you for your comments, I have corrected the mistake in table 3. And in figure 8B, 8D and in figure 8E.

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