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Design of a Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling Windcatcher (PDEC-WC) System for Greenhouses in Hot Climates

Energies 2020, 13(11), 2934; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13112934
by Marouen Ghoulem 1, Khaled El Moueddeb 1, Ezzedine Nehdi 1, Fangliang Zhong 2 and John Calautit 2,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Reviewer 3: Anonymous
Energies 2020, 13(11), 2934; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13112934
Submission received: 12 April 2020 / Revised: 26 May 2020 / Accepted: 1 June 2020 / Published: 8 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

I found your paper well structured and organized. You should just motivate the reason only greenhouses not provided with wind-catchers were considered (when the effect of the presence of other greenhouses is discussed) and what do you expect in case of wind velocity less than 3 m/s.
You will find other minor details (e.g. incomplete sentences and the absence of a blank between numeric values and units) in the pdf marked file.

Best regards.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

General and specific comments are included in the attached file.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

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Reviewer 3 Report

This study investigates the potential of a passive downdraught evaporative cooling windcatcher (PDEC-WC) integrated into a greenhouse. The research work is well-presented but following additions/explanation are requested:

  • For the validation of the greenhouse model, please explain the experimental set-up.
  • Please include limitation of this study. 
  • What considerations are made for performance uncertainties in real-life application while using CFD analysis?
  • Recommendation for the future works is missing under the conclusion section. 

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Additional edits and comments are included in the attached documents. Please involve your co-author from the UK in drafting the final revision.

Comments for author File: Comments.docx

Author Response

The authors would like to thank the reviewer once again for providing a very detailed review and proofreading of our manuscript. The comments and suggestions were very helpful. We have tried to address all of them and believe that our work has improved significantly. Please see our response in the enclosed document.

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