Optimizing Conduit Hydropower Potential by Determining Pareto-Optimal Trade-Off Curve

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This manuscript can be accepted for publication after major revisions, see the followings:

*The introduction should be improved (The literature review is not good).
*English should be improved.
*The Abstract and Conclusion should be improved. Outstanding results should be defined as quantified in the abstract and conclusions.
*The References should be updated.

*The novelty of this article is not clear. Please more explain it.
*Better description and explanation of figures 6 to 9. The description of the results of the figures is not sufficient and convincing.
*There are some typing errors and inaccuracies in the manuscript. Please, check the paper again for any possible misprints.

* Figure 9 is missed in the text of the article. Please edit the caption of figure 9.

* The quality of the figures should be improved.

* How has the validity of the results been examined? Please mention it in the text of the full article.
* Introduction part needs to be extended by some of the recently published papers to show the importance of the application of multi-objective optimization algorithms in the energy engineering field in good journals. The following references should be included in this manuscript:

[1] Ahmadi, Mohammad Hossein, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, Adel Mellit, Fathollah Pourfayaz, and Michel Feidt. "Thermodynamic analysis and multi objective optimization of performance of solar dish Stirling engine by the centrality of entransy and entropy generation." International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 78 (2016): 88-95.

[2] Ghazvini, M., S. M. Pourkiaei, and F. Pourfayaz. "Thermo-economic assessment and optimization of actual heat engine performance by implemention of NSGA II." Renewable Energy Research and Application 1, no. 2 (2020): 235-245.

[3] Beiranvand, A., M. A. Ehyaei, A. Ahmadi, and Jose Luz Silvaria. "Energy, exergy, and economic analyses and optimization of solar organic Rankine cycle with multi-objective particle swarm algorithm." Renewable Energy Research and Application (2020).

 

*I hope that the authors refer to more published papers in Sustainability.

Author Response

Thank you for the review. Comments on the review are included in the attached file and incorporated in the new manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

This article is very well done, well structured and answers the journal's theme.

However I advise the author to rectify the comments that I presented throughout this article, then to update them.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Thank you for the review. Comments on the review are included in the attached file and incorporated in the new manuscript.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Well-presented and well-written describing a significant and interesting subject of generating renewable energy. 

My only comment is that I felt the abstract is a bit long. The first paragraph is more of an introduction rather than an abstract. 

Author Response

Thank you for the review. Comments on the review are included in the attached file and incorporated in the new manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

This article can be accepted.