Integrated Nanogrid for the Impressed Current Cathodic Protection System in Desalination Plant
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report (Previous Reviewer 1)
I can still find some minor English Grammar issues. So, please read once more to fix. Also, please look into the figures having blurred parts to fix them.
Author Response
I can still find some minor English grammar issues. So please read once more to fix. Also please look into the figures having blurred parts to fix them.
Response:
The English grammar is checked and the figures are incorporated with high resolution figures and submitted in the revised version of the paper.
Reviewer 2 Report (Previous Reviewer 3)
The main contribution of this paper is not clear. I suggest the authors itemize the main contribution of the paper in the last paragraph of the Introduction. The diagram in Figure 6 is not clear. It is better to depict the diagram again. Besides, droop control must be discussed in the Introduction, since the stability analysis based on Figure 3 is not new. Here are some references that may help you:
1. Y. Jiang, Y. Yang, S. -C. Tan and S. -Y. R. Hui, "Distribution Power Loss Mitigation of Parallel-Connected Distributed Energy Resources in Low-Voltage DC Microgrids Using a Lagrange Multiplier-Based Adaptive Droop Control," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 9105-9118, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2021.3050506.
2. Y. Jiang, Y. Yang, S. -C. Tan and S. -Y. R. Hui, "Adaptive Current Sharing of Distributed Battery Systems in DC Microgrids Using Adaptive Virtual Resistance-Based Droop Control," 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2019, pp. 4262-4267, doi: 10.1109/ECCE.2019.8912180.
Author Response
The main contribution of the paper is not clear. I suggest authors itemize the main contribution of the paper in the last paragraph of the introduction. The diagram in figure 6 is not clear. It is better to depict the diagram again. Besides droop control must be discussed in the introduction. Since the stability analysis in figure 3 is not new. Here are some references that may help you.
The response to the queries are addressed in the revised paper and revision comments are attached.
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Reviewer 3 Report (Previous Reviewer 4)
Good paper. In this form the paper may be published.
Author Response
Good paper. In this form the paper may be published.
Thank you for your comments.
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report (Previous Reviewer 3)
The authors have addressed all my concerns. I think it is ready for publication.
This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
First, there are a lot of English grammar issues starting from abstract till the end. Please address the whole article for grammar and sentence corrections. Some examples for your reference are noted below;
Abstract: lines 2-6
At present days the grid rectifier units with supported with battery bank is used for the ICCP based corrosion protection system in Desalination plant.
continues to the next sentences too
The simulation results confirm that, the ING suffers high rate of change of frequency during islanded operation and some cases complete blackout occurs.
Though the terminology of integrated nanogrid (ING) is known but it is not that common that we opt to not define it. This needs to be defined while starting the introduction as per the article.
Almost every 2nd or 3rd sentence is having grammatical errors, disrupting the flow of reading.
A substantial literature review has been carried out by the authors know about different industrial power supply solutions for ICCP method of corrosion prevention methods and also studied the recent development as well as implementation methodologies.
Literature studies are quite limited.
Figures also need to be improved as suffering badly with blurred texts.
The results are limited and also need more discussion and comparison with the earlier studies. Thanks
Author Response
Dear Reviewer
Thanks for your comments.
The entire article is checked for grammatical mistakes, spelling mistakes and typo errors. All the corrections are incorporated in the revised manuscript.
Some more literature reviews are included.
The quality figures are replaced with new figures wherever it is blurred.
The additional transient analysis results are provided.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper presented a Nano-grid based Cathodic-protection impressed scheme. However, some typos that need to corrected (e.g. equation # 4) and English language formulation.
Author Response
Dear sir
Thanks for the comments
The typo error in equation 4 is corrected and the English grammar is checked throughout the paper and incorporated
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 3 Report
Overall, this paper lacks novelty and the results are not sufficient to verify the analysis. This paper is more like a review paper rather than a technical paper. The diagrams plotted in this paper are not original and many mistakes can be found. The results are not original too. Some curves look very strange. The references are insufficient. Therefore, I suggest declining this paper.
Author Response
Thanks for the comments
The clarification for the review comments is attached.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 4 Report
Missing experimental validations. Put some preliminary experimental results.
Put more and relevant simulation results.
Missing an application of ING system in ICCP operated cathodic protection system.
Improve the references list with more actual papers from MDPI Journals and from IEEE Conferences and Journals.
Author Response
Thanks for the comments.
Actually experimental validation was not done , only simulation studies were carried out. The simulation studies show that after incorporating ING system, the ICCP is working without any interruption.
Few more references from IEEE and MDPI journals are included.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Figure 3 and Figure 4 are still blurred, and not acceptable as per the guidelines for the reviewers.
ETAP figures are Okay. Though you have tried to improve the grammar and English of the article, but I strongly recommend to get assistance for language improvement of the article. It is even blurring the work, and the results of the studies in this article. Thanks
Reviewer 3 Report
This paper is not well-organized. The main contribution of the paper are not clear. The literature review is not comprehensive. Many referred articles have technical flaws (as can be seen in this paper). The authors also have a lot of misunderstandings on the system.
Reviewer 4 Report
This form of paper is more good.
