The journal retracts the article titled “Development and Testing of a Block Hydrocyclone” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding the relevance of a number of references presented in this study [1].
Adhering to our complaints procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board that confirmed that a significant proportion of the citations were not appropriately relevant to this publication. Furthermore, the Editorial Board concluded that this article lacked appropriate citations to support the findings that are presented. As a result, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the reliability of the findings and decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Processes.
The authors did not provide a comment to this retraction.
Reference
- Repko, A.; Sága, M.; Sentyakov, B.; Sviatskii, V. RETRACTED: Development and Testing of a Block Hydrocyclone. Processes 2020, 8, 1577. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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