An Integrated Approach to Assess Smart Passive Bioventing as a Sustainable Strategy for the Remediation of a Polluted Site by Persistent Organic Pollutants

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript entitled "An integrated approach to assess the Smart Passive Bioventing as a sustainable strategy for the remediation of a polluted site by Persistent Organic Pollutants" is written well and the graphs and tables are suitable.  An evaluation for the expected installation and operation costs for a full-scale passive bioventing system, is reported in this manuscript. The authors are requested to present the work done and the research question here clearly in the last paragraphs of introduction section.

The authors have not discussed the research gap and the novelty or new model/suggestions for the remediation of POP.  The research gap has not be clearly presented by the authors. The authors should clearly present the research gap and the need of work presented here.

Please elaborate the novelty of your work or new suggestions suggested in this manuscript in the last paragraph of introduction so that the readers understand what sort of solution has been suggested for the said problem.  The number of references can be reduced and only closely related latest references should be cited.  There are so many references in the article, please only cite relevant and latest work.

 

Speech recognition is very challenging and the development of automatic speech recognition system is necessary to accurately recognize speech. Authors have proposed various theoretical models as well as carried out some experimental work to recognize speech with improved accuracy and efficiency.

The authors should improve the quality of images, the resolution of all figures are very poor, and similarly the figure captions of some figures are incorrect. There are some bullet points at the start of paragraphs which should be removed. Similarly, the sections distribution looks too awkward and there are 9-10 sections. The results are usually presenting in section3, discussion in 4 and so on. Please give sub-sections to reduce the number of sections in your manuscript. The resolution of figures are poor which should be improved.

 

The conclusions is not summarized, written in the future tense and there are also references in it, which means that it has been either copied from introduction section. The authors are requested to write the conclusion of current work not the general description.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

 The following suggestions/observations must be addressed and the manuscript needs to be revised. 

1. Numbering of Tables in main text and supporting file is identical which is confusing. The tables in both files must be distinguished from each other. Moreover, the Tables and Figures in supporting file must be cited in the main text in a proper way. It is useless to mention that the citation in the section "Supporting information" must be revised accordingly. 

2. Authors have presented a detailed discussion about feasibility of the project and a time frame of three years is proposed, Do they plan to submit a project on the idea to any funding agency or what? 

3. What is validity of results presented in the manuscript, did they use more than one sensors/methodologies? Upto which extent these results are valid based on the method they used.   

4. I would strongly suggest including a clear paragraph at the end “Conclusion” to sum up the study.

5. Line 677, the 3 in "m3" is superscript, correct it.

6. Regarding Pytoremediation of VOCs there are several plants which are reasonably selective and can be used to improve indoor air quality. Look and summarize the following reports in introduction, if deem fit.

doi.org/10.1080/15226514.2022.2090499, doi.org/10.1007/s11869-016-0452-x, doi.org/10.3390/environments8110118)

 

 

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Reviewer 3 Report

The aim of this research is to provide essential information to plan a series of in situ tests to verify the applicability of remediation technology, by the use of intelligent sensors designed by using open source hardware and software.

The article is very interesting and nicely written and it brings some useful information. I think that the manuscript has a potential to be published in the journal. I recommend the revising of the article by highlighting the novelty of the study in the introduction section. Also I suggested some corrections which can be found on article text.

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