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Rebuttal to the Arguments in the Letter to the Editor: Improvement May be Possible
Author(s) -
Boey PengLim,
Ganesan Shangeetha,
Maniam Gaanty Pragas
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/s11746-011-1992-8
Subject(s) - rebuttal , psychology , law , political science
Dear Editor, Thank you for giving us a fair chance to explain and defend the integrity of our work from the allegations pointed out in the letter to the editor, ‘‘Improvement May Be Possible.’’ We hope the editor will kindly refer to the questions brought up by the reviewers for our manuscript, regeneration and reutilization of oil-laden spent bleaching clay via in situ transesterification and calcination and our answers to them before deciding whether the arguments put up in this letter are valid. We find that the arguments here do not appreciate the essence of the paper itself that reports on one of the ways to reuse an industrial waste that is causing many environmental problems for the palm oil industry. The authors in good faith have put forward our rebuttal for almost every paragraph of the letter to the editor. We hope our hard work in the laboratory will not be undermined by mere theoretical knowledge of what should have been that does not reflect on the current technologies available in oil refining.