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Numerical Simulation of Airflow Organization in Vulcanization Tanks for Waste Tires

Polymers 2025, 17(2), 232; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17020232
by Tianxi Su 1, Yongzhi Ma 1,*, Baolin Wang 2, Xiaowen Luan 2, Hui Li 2 and Xuelong Zhang 1
Polymers 2025, 17(2), 232; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17020232
Submission received: 20 December 2024 / Revised: 14 January 2025 / Accepted: 16 January 2025 / Published: 17 January 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymer-Based Flexible Materials, 2nd Edition)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

This paper is well written and comprehensive. The results presented are of interest for rubber industry and production planing. I have marked minor suggestions in pdf file attached.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Comments 1:Change 'of' to 'and'.
Response 1:Agree. We had completed it on line 26.  

Comments 2:Please provide reference.
Response 2:Agree. We had completed it on line 33.  

Comments 3:Superscript.
Response 3:Agree. We had completed it on line 60,301, 302 and 249.  

Comments 4:Provide the meaning of abbreviation.
Response 4:Agree. We had completed it on line 52.  

Comments 5:Change 'Experimental Equipment' to 'Materials and Methods'.
Response 5:Agree. We had completed it on line 143.  

Comments 6:Space before bracket.
Response 6:Agree. We had completed it on line 170,202 and 425.  

Comments 7:The temperature of the.
Response 7:Agree. We had completed it on line 170.  

Comments 8:Which software was used?
Response 8:Agree. We had mentioned it on line 134,191,224.  

Comments 9:Change 'the Standard deviation formula' to 'Standard deviation was calculated'.
Response 9:Agree. We had completed it on line 233.  

Comments 10:Please use adequate symbol for multiplication.
Response 10:Agree. We had correct it on table 2.  

Comments 11:This is already mentioned above.
Response 11:Agree. We had removed it on line 256.  

Comments 12:Italic.
Response 12:Agree. We had correct  it on line 258,353.  

Comments 12:This can be removed.
Response 12:Agree. We had removed  it on line 503.  

Comments 13:Please rewrite this sentence.
Response 13:Agree. We had rewrite  it on line 303.  

Comments 14:Change 'Result' to 'Result and Discussion'.
Response 14:Agree. We had rewrite  it on line 280.  

Comments 15:Please check symbols. They are different in above equations.
Response 15:Agree. We had correct  it on line 220,221 and 222.  

Comments 16:Change 'When the time is ' to 'For the time of '.
Response 16:Agree. We had correct  it on line 351.  

Comments 17:Change 'quality ' to 'quality of  '.
Response 17:Agree. We had correct  it on line 437.  

Comments 18:Removed ' thermometer'.
Response 18:Agree. We had correct  it on line 373.  

Comments 19:Please correct units.
Response 19:Agree. We had correct  it on line 388,389.  

Comments 20:Removed '6. Discussion  '.
Response 20:Agree. We had removed  it.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

1 - The idea is very interesting, but methods are not well explained and introduced,

2 - the software that you used FEM software I believe is not introduced,

3 - and really the process in the cilindric structure is not well defined

4- and vulcanization agent neither defined

5- and its position is not well explained, please introduce changes in this areas,

6- introduce a process diagram specifiinf very well this,

7 - neither there is no information If this research is for a company or project, 8- and I believe that for this is important to explain and clarify a energy balance about the retraitment process and energy diagram about the process of retraitment described by you

Describe the benefit of the 2 retraitment processes described by you (high temperature and low temperature)

Author Response

Comments 1: The idea is very interesting, but methods are not well explained and introduced.

Response 1: Thank you for your suggestion. We have completed the modifications. 

Comments 2: The software that you used FEM software I believe is not introduced.

Response 2: We agree with this comment. Therefore, we made modifications and introductions on lines 134, 191, and 224.

Comments 3: And really the process in the cilindric structure is not well defined.

Response 3: We agree with this comment. Therefore, we made modifications in Figure 3 and introduced it on line 165.

Comments 4: Vulcanization agent neither defined.

Response 4: We agree with this comment. Therefore, we made an introduction  from line 80 to 85.

Comments 5: And its position is not well explained, please introduce changes in this areas.

Response 5: We agree with this comment. Therefore, we made an introduction on line 79.

Comments 6: Introduce a process diagram specifiinf very well this,.

Response 6: We agree with this comment. Therefore, we made a modification  in Figure 1.

Comments 7:Neither there is no information If this research is for a company or project

Response 7: In facet. The author, Baolin Wang, is the CEO of the company, which can be seen on the website, https://aiqicha.baidu.com/company_detail_20492703234228. And Xiaowen Luan and Hui Li is the employee of the company.

Comments 8: and I believe that for this is important to explain and clarify a energy balance about the retraitment process and energy diagram about the process of retraitment described by you.

Response 8: We agree with this comment. Therefore, we added a schematic diagram of energy transfer  in Figure 4.

Comments 9: Describe the benefit of the 2 retraitment processes described by you.

Response 8: We agree with this comment. The article has already mentioned the benefits of cold vulcanization. In addtion, we also introduced the benefits of hot vulcanization on lines 111 to 113.

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Thank you for your answers

Comments on the Quality of English Language

English seems in good level

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