Peer-Review Record
Effects of Total Thermal Balance on the Thermal Energy Absorbed or Released by a High-Temperature Phase Change Material
Molecules 2021, 26(2), 365; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26020365
by
Suset Rodríguez-Alemán 1, Ernesto M. Hernández-Cooper 1, Rolando Pérez-Álvarez 2
and José A. Otero 1,*
and José A. Otero 1,*Reviewer 1:
Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Anonymous
Molecules 2021, 26(2), 365; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26020365
Submission received: 15 December 2020
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Revised: 5 January 2021
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Accepted: 7 January 2021
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Published: 12 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phase Change Materials 2.0)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The comments are attached.
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Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is the article on Thermal balance for Phase Change Material
I think the content is described reasonably well but needs some revisions to address the following points before considering publication in this Journal.
- The abstract need to be improved in line with the introduction referring the example study of KNO3.
- Need to modify the word apparent latent heat in the abstract.
- The authors referred "Isobaric Phase Transition" for one dimensional Material and never referred afterwards neither the definition and nor an explanation. Is KNO3 treated as one dimensional material?
- In the method and material the one dimensionality is not defined.
- It is mentioned that the heat transfer through the system is homogeneous about the perpendicular plane. I will love to see the directional impact in the mathematical form and reason for the homogeneity in one direction.
- As temperature is key , I wish to see an explicit definition of Tl, Ts and Tm.
- The authors mentioned: is the initial temperature distribution in the liquid (solid) domain, and T` (Ts) is the temperature distribution at some time value t. But the equation is part of Finite Element approach.
- What is the model used in Finite Element method, can the author elaborate about the mesh size, the interface design, if it is a singe particle or multi-particle method. I as well wanted to know if the system is for single or multi-material .
- I want to see a comparison with other Finite element method result with the current one.
Author Response
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Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
I am satisfied with the response the authors provided and i therefore recommend publication with minor spell check.
