A New Perspective on Hydrogen Chloride Scavenging at High Temperatures for Reducing the Smoke Acidity of PVC Cables in Fires, IV: The Impact of Acid Scavengers at High Temperatures on Flame Retardance and Smoke Emission

Round 1

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Reviewer 2 Report

There are some format mistakes：

1.     There are problems with the location of the inserted literature. For example, the position of ' 9,13 ' in line 75 should be after ', ' with reference to the insertion position below. Such format problems also appeared in the following locations, such as : 287 lines, 349 lines.

2.     The distance between Reagens S.P.A and REAC0 in line 172 is too large. Format problems also appeared in the following locations, such as : line 312, 719.

3.     The thickness of the lines between each three-line table should be unified.

4.     In line 194, ' 5,50 and 7,50 ' is suggested to be revised to ' 5.50 and 7.50 '. Also in Table 7.

5.     There is a difference between ' K.W. / m² ' in Table3 and ' KW / m² ' in the manuscript. Mistakes such as these also occurred in the following locations. For example, ' M.J. / m² ' in Table4, ' M.J. / m² ' in Table10.

Other comments:

1.     Most of the references are more than ten years ago, and the latest scientific research results are not paid enough attention.

2.     Because many data charts in this paper need to be compared, and the unreasonable location distribution of pictures and tables makes it very difficult to understand the article.

3.     In line 441-442, ' It is unclear why REA5 shows higher THR values than REA6 ( Table 9, Figures 5 and 6 ), despite yielding more odor ', although the authors give their own  guesses, it is better to provide some experimental results.

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Reviewer 3 Report

The work presented in this manuscript is interesting and well presented. However, there are minor corrections are needed as listed.

1. Abstract need to be revised focusing about what is new and present achievements in numbers.

2. introduction section need to be enriched with other smoke suppressants   materials and I would recommend citation of the following reports 

Flame Retardants and Smoke Suppressants,John C. Morley, Richard F. GrossmanBook Editor(s):Richard F. Grossman https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470253595.ch16

Materials Chemistry and Physics 168, 147-158

3.What about the dispersion of materials in PVC cables.

4. The authors need to explain scavenging mechanism using schametic  diagram .

5. All figures quality need to be improved.

 

English need improvement.

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