Analysis of LNG Storage Tank Safety: A Comprehensive Model Approach with ANP and Normal Cloud

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

There are some critical issues that must be improved and clarified before considering the publication as follows.

1. Why the study must validate the ANP results with AHP? (The ANP is an improved form of AHP, so normally ANP should be better than AHP in the dependency model). Normally, we cannot find the work applying this kind of validation. Please provide the reasons and necessity in the paper.

2. There are some related works focusing on ANP and considering non-financial attributes. Please read and see if you can benefit from adding them to the study.

• Improving the Strategic Benchmarking of Intellectual Capital Management in Logistics Service Providers, Sustainability 12, no. 23: 10174.
• A Hybrid MCDM Approach Based on ANP and TOPSIS for Facility Layout Selection, Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, 2018, 35(6), pp. 1027-1037
• Improving the intellectual capital management approach using the hybrid decision method, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 670 – 691.

3. Strengthen the rationale for the application of ANP to the study problem (why the study require ANP not other MCDM methods).

4. The discussion part should focus more on the comparison with other past related works. Trying to present the advantages and disadvantages of works. 

5. The practical implication and limitations of works should be added.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The authors present an article about the analysis of LNG storage tank safety through a comprehensive model approach with ANP and normal cloud. The presented work has some merits, but, at the same time, the provided future research directions and conclusions appears to be trivial. The discussion section is weak and should be improved. In general check all the references, please do not include names of authors. 

 

More details are provided in the following. In the abstract, the authors must clarify the importance of the LNG energy context.

 

In the introduction some statistic needs to give given for the usage of LNG energy in comparison to other type of energy.

 

Line 31 please modify the reference

Line 41 please modify the reference

Line 42 please modify the reference

Line 43 What is FERC?

Line 44 What is CFD?

Line 61 What is MADM?

Line 62 please modify the reference

Line 69 please modify the reference

Line 71 please modify the reference

Line 123 More details about Super Decision Software

 

Figure 1 should be explicit, to many information it’s difficult to read

 

Line 133 More information of the experts should be included

Line 135 The high-risk location, equipment, processes, personnel and substances are not described in details.

 

Line 155 What is meaning blue and yellow bars?

Line 172 What is "Three violators"?

Line 172 What is BOG recycling process?

 

Line 172 Table 3 it is very extensive

 

Figure 5 and 6 are not clear

 

Line 217 please modify the reference

 

Line 243 check the sentence

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

All my comments have been sufficiently addressed. The paper can be accepted for publication in Applied Sciences. 

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors

Thanks for your improvements, the  manuscript is suitable for publication in Applied Sciences,

Kind Regards