Electrochemical Mineralization of Ibuprofen on BDD Electrodes in an Electrochemical Flow Reactor: Numerical Optimization Approach

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Please find my comments in the attached file.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors

find my review in the attached file

Sincerely

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Reviewer 3 Report

The manuscript investigates the optimization of electrooxidation of ibuprofen using BDD electrode. This manuscript cannot be accepted in this form due to the following reasons:

• The main reason is the originality. There are some articles on this topic which have already published such as:
  • Amanda B. Lima et al., Electrochemical Oxidation of Ibuprofen and Its Voltammetric Determination at a Boron‐Doped Diamond Electrode, 2013, Electroanalysis, Volume 25, Issue 7.
  • Chong Wang et al., Insights of ibuprofen electro-oxidation on metal-oxide-coated Ti anodes: Kinetics, energy consumption and reaction mechanisms, Chemosphere, Volume 163, November 2016, Pages 584-591.
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• Just using software to optimize the process without deeply discussing scientific facts like reaction mechanism, voltammetric study, by-products, etc.

 

• As the authors claimed, the cost of USD 0.002/ L is low, but this cost is not low. Maximum USD 0.001/L is acceptable.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I recommend the publication of the paper in its present form

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors

with the corrections you've made I accept your manuscript in current form

sincerely

Reviewer 3 Report

The answers are not satisfying. I believe that this manuscript must be rejected as per the comments on the original manuscript.