The problems of environmental pollution and limited oil reserves have drawn several scientists and engineers to look for alternate routes for producing petroleum-like products. One important route is the conversion of renewable materials to aromatic hydrocarbons. In search of literature on this topic, I came across the work of Fegade Swapnil that was published in I&EC Research.(1) The title of the

The authors greatly appreciate these comments on this paper and highlighting the importance of this potential process pathway to aromatics production. Further information about the statistical work performed during the study is available in Fegade(1) appendix C which contains all of the raw statistical data generated as well as additional statistical results from the Minitab program. These details

I am delighted to inform our readers that Professor Ashwin W. Patwardhan of the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai, is joining our team of editors. His appointment with I&EC Research begins as this issue is published in March. Prof. Patwardhan is Professor of Chemical Engineering at ICT, where he currently serves as Head of the Chemical Engineering Department. Prof. Patwardhan is a Fellow