Algae: The Reservoir of Bioethanol

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1- Manuscript English language editing is required. There are numerous cases of minor grammatical inaccuracies and typos.
2- Rewrite and rearrange the abstract and added some results.
3- Please update the survey of related work literature. The updated literature review must put the problems of this work into a meaningful context and contain the latest insights on research in the field.
4- The authors can consider this paper in your work for the introduction and their importance will help for the different points in your research as mentioned in the next statements (doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.010; doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119185; doi.org/10.3390/su15075879; and doi.org/10.3390/pr11040992).
5- The conclusion section needs more clarity with more concentrated on the man results of the previous work.
6- In each section, the authors can prepare table collected the main results, comments of each previous work (Ref.) to easily comparison.
7- Also, in each section, the authors can prepare Figure shows the main results of each previous work (Ref.) to easily comparison.
Add some recommendation and/or future statements at the end of the conclusion part.
I hope these comments will be helpful to you.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

I think this manuscript needs a major revision.

Author Response

1- Manuscript English language editing is required. There are numerous cases of minor grammatical inaccuracies and typos.

Thank you very much for your valuable suggestion. We improved the language and corrected the grammatical mistakes in the revised manuscript.

2- Rewrite and rearrange the abstract and added some results.

Thank you and we improved the abstract in the revised manuscript.

3- Please update the survey of related work literature. The updated literature review must put the problems of this work into a meaningful context and contain the latest insights on research in the field.

Thank you so much for your suggestion. We updated the literature related to this review in the revised manuscript.

4- The authors can consider this paper in your work for the introduction and their importance will help for the different points in your research as mentioned in the next statements (doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.010; doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119185; doi.org/10.3390/su15075879; and doi.org/10.3390/pr11040992).

Thank you for your information and references. We used this information for this review and included in the revised manuscript.

5- The conclusion section needs more clarity with more concentrated on the man results of the previous work.

Thank you so much and the conclusion part is improved in the revised manuscript

6- In each section, the authors can prepare table collected the main results, comments of each previous work (Ref.) to easily comparison.

Thank you very much for your suggestion. We made some tables and included in the revised manuscript wherever necessary.

 
7- Also, in each section, the authors can prepare Figure shows the main results of each previous work (Ref.) to easily comparison.

Thank you so much and we made some new figures in the revised manuscript wherever necessary as per your suggestion

Add some recommendation and/or future statements at the end of the conclusion part.

Thank you and we gave some statements in the conclusion part in the revised manuscript.

I hope these comments will be helpful to you.

Thank you very much for your encouragement and help to improve this manuscript  

Reviewer 2 Report

This article considers the progress of algae plants as a source of bioethanol. It has a certain value to be published. However, it has some problems.

1. The writing style is somewhat problematic. It is written like a textbook in the  first few pages. The knowledge are a little common sense and can be simplified.

2. Each paragraph is written too long and is laborious to read.

3. Suitable classifications, such as the algae catagery, the planting  and processing methods, shall be improved. Now it looks like a hotpot, as table 1.

 

Author Response

This article considers the progress of algae plants as a source of bioethanol. It has a certain value to be published. However, it has some problems.

Thank you very much for your encouragement and suggestions.

1. The writing style is somewhat problematic. It is written like a textbook in the first few pages. The knowledge are a little common sense and can be simplified.

Thank you very much for your suggestion. We improved the writing part and simplified some portions in the first few pages in the revised manuscript.

2. Each paragraph is written too long and is laborious to read.

Thank you for your suggestion and we removed certain parts in the revised manuscript.

3. Suitable classifications, such as the algae catagery, the planting and processing methods, shall be improved. Now it looks like a hotpot, as table 1.

Thank you very much for your suggestion. We categorized the information based on the algal groups (green, brown, red, blue-green and miscellaneous) in the revised manuscript.

Reviewer 3 Report

The present article entitled” Algae: The Reservoir of Bioethanol” based on a interesting theme and authors have mentioned good content. However I have some suggestion that may improve the presentation of this review article.

Line 94-97;   Author have mentioned that “This review also covers the influence of various physico-chemical factors on ethanol production in algal species” but no any heading represent this section. Author have mentioned some factors in future prospect, .Add details factors in the mid or  make a separate section

Line-306-317 .Author should  place the table in the  mid, where table.1 is mentioned first time  

Section 5- is to long.. author can split into two three parts.. like mechanism, factors  influences ethanol production, and application of algal species in ethanol production

 

 

The present article entitled” Algae: The Reservoir of Bioethanol” based on a interesting theme and authors have mentioned good content. However I have some suggestion that may improve the presentation of this review article.

Line 94-97;   Author have mentioned that “This review also covers the influence of various physico-chemical factors on ethanol production in algal species” but no any heading represent this section. Author have mentioned some factors in future prospect, .Add details factors in the mid or  make a separate section

Line-306-317 .Author should  place the table in the  mid, where table.1 is mentioned first time  

Section 5- is to long.. author can split into two three parts.. like mechanism, factors  influences ethanol production, and application of algal species in ethanol production

 

 

Author Response

The present article entitled” Algae: The Reservoir of Bioethanol” based on a interesting theme and authors have mentioned good content. However I have some suggestion that may improve the presentation of this review article.

Thank you so much for your encouragement and suggestions.

Line 94-97;   Author have mentioned that “This review also covers the influence of various physico-chemical factors on ethanol production in algal species” but no any heading represent this section. Author have mentioned some factors in future prospect, .Add details factors in the mid or make a separate section

Thank you for your suggestion. We corrected that sentence i.e. ‘various factors’ instead of physico-chemical factors and actually we already wrote section 4 i.e. ‘Effects of various factors on growth and ethanol production from algae’ which is improved now in the revised manuscript. In addition, we included some of the future prospect points in the revised manuscript.

Line-306-317 .Author should place the table in the  mid, where table.1 is mentioned first time  

Thank you very much for your information. We placed the table-1 in the mid as per your suggestion in the revised manuscript. Also, we placed other tables in the mid of the manuscript.

Section 5- is to long.. author can split into two three parts.. like mechanism, factors  influences ethanol production, and application of algal species in ethanol production

Thank you very much for your information. We divided section 5 into sub sections based on the algal groups i.e. green, brown, red and blue-green in the revised manuscript.