Integrated Approach for Carbon Sequestration and Wastewater Treatment Using Algal–Bacterial Consortia: Opportunities and Challenges

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

• The Abstract is OK.
• The key words permit found article in the current registers or indexes.
• The size of the article is appropriate to the contents.
• The content is in accord with title.
• The field of research approached in the paper - Integrated Approach for Carbon Sequestration and Wastewater Treatment using Algal–Bacterial Consortia: Opportunities and Challenges –has an important impact on environmental protection. The wastewater treatment process employing the algal–bacterial consortia has great potential to become a major alternative to other aeration-based treatment technologies including activated sludge treatment.
• The figures have a good quality.
• The paper has the text presented and arranged clearly and concisely.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We sincerely thank you for giving your time to review our article and giving very nice comments about the article.

Best regards,

V. Shashirekha 

Reviewer 2 Report

• Reference 110 is not cited in the text.
• Cite table 3.
• Most of the references used are not recent. If possible, I recommend updating some.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We sincerely thank you for giving your time to review our article and suggesting few revisions that are very valuable.

We have addressed the following for the points raised by you and marked in track change mode for your easy view. 

Sl. No.	Reviewers’ comments and suggestions	Revisions
1.	Reference 110 is not cited in the text	It is included. Now it is reference no. 122
2.	Cite table 3	It is cited. Now it is reference no. 154
3.	Most of the references used are not recent. If possible, I recommend updating some.	Cited about 14 recent references

 

Best regards,

V. Shashirekha

Reviewer 3 Report

The present paper present a brief review about Carbon Sequestration and Wastewater Treatment using Algal–Bacterial Consortia.

I have the following suggestions for authors:  

• the manuscript does not contain information about  microalgae use for liquid digestate treatment.  Also,  there is no related information about  biogas upgrade using microalgae.  
• I recommend citing more recent works (2020 - 2021), because there are many recent studies in this field; 

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We sincerely thank you for giving your time to review our article and suggesting few revisions that are very valuable.

We have addressed the following for the points raised by you and marked in track change mode for your easy view. 

Sl. No.	Reviewers’ comments and suggestions	Revisions
1.	The manuscript does not contain information about microalgae use for liquid digestate treatment.  Also, there is no related information about biogas upgrade using microalgae	Incorporated the suggested topic with recent references (No. 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 85, 110, 113)
2.	I recommend citing more recent works (2020 - 2021), because there are many recent studies in this field	Cited about 10 very recent references in the subject

 

Best regards,

V. Shashirekha

This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.