Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Reaction of Catalytic Dismutation of Chlorosilanes in the Vapor Phase in the Temperature Range of 353–393 K
Iker Agirrezabal-Telleria
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper by Georgy Mochalov entitled "Thermodynamics and kinetics of the reaction of catalytic dismutation of chlorosilanes in the vapor phase in the temperature range of 353–393 K" investigates the dependence of the composition of the reaction mixture on the time of contact of the TS vapor with the catalyst under static conditions. The kinetics of the dismutation reaction of TC and dichlorosilane (DCS) was carried out by the flow method. As a result of regression analysis of experimental data, the rate constants of the direct and reverse dismutation reactions of TC, DCS and monochlorosilane (MSC) were obtained. The rate
constants were used to calculate the equilibrium composition of the reaction mixture. A good agreement of the calculated and experimental data is shown. The paper is well-written and is recommended for publication, but after addressing following minor comments:
1. Always write keywords in alphabetical order.
2. Can the authors are able to improve the manuscript title?
3. Please align the paper referencing style with the journal requirements.
4. Author should also provide a graphical mechanism for this work. It will attract the readers and they will quickly understand the mechanism of your work. Please consult this article, Chemical Engineering Journal 420, 130529, for getting an idea of the graphical mechanism. Please also consider citing it.
5. There is no connection in the result and discussion section. I strongly recommend the author please connect the paragraphs of result and discussion with each other in a logical way, like "In order to explore further..." or "to shed more light on the...," etc.
6. This work should be compared with recently published at least 5 articles in a scientific table.
7. Make sure all abbreviations are written out in full the first time used. This is particularly important in the abstract and the conclusions but work through the entire ms carefully from this perspective.
8. There are grammatical, syntax, or word usage errors in the manuscript. Please improve the English of this manuscript.
9. The quality of figures is very low. This is highly recommended that the authors must use Origin Pro for the plotting of high quality graphs.
10. Manuscripts published in ChemEngineering must explain the significant advances provided in approaches and understanding compared to previous literature, and/or demonstrate convincingly potential in new applications. The Conclusions of your paper are especially important for this. Therefore, please try to sharpen this further. The optimal Conclusion should include:
* A summary of your key findings.
* A highlight of your hypothesis, new concepts, and innovations.
* A summary of key improvements compared to findings in the literature [provide a couple of references to indicate key improvements].
* Your vision for future work.
Author Response
Dear Editor!
We are sending you a revised article in accordance with your comments.
All comments are constructive and useful in terms of presenting the results obtained. Thanks.
The only thing I would like to note is that we tried to fully reflect the essence of the work in the title of the article as much as possible! But if you have any suggestions for changing the name, we are ready to accept your suggestions.
We tried to take into account the rest of the comments in the revised text of the article. We are ready for further cooperation if you have any other comments or questions.
Sincerely, the authors.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is an interesting work that shows the catalytic disproportionation of chlorosilanes in the vapor phase. The work shows extensive experimental details and data that make the reading quite difficult. I suggest:
- To move some less relevant to the Supplementary Information
- To indicate error data (+-) in tables in another format or averaged.
- To substitute some tables for graphs.
- To improve graph representations (as for Figure 1) to properly show x- and y-axis in Origin format.
- To indicate key experimental conditions in the caption of each graph
Author Response
Dear Editor!
We are sending you a revised article in accordance with your comments.
All comments are constructive and useful in terms of presenting the results obtained. Thanks.
The only thing I would like to note is that we tried to fully reflect the essence of the work in the title of the article as much as possible! But if you have any suggestions for changing the name, we are ready to accept your suggestions.
We tried to take into account the rest of the comments in the revised text of the article. We are ready for further cooperation if you have any other comments or questions.
Sincerely, the authors.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
