I am delighted to inform our authors and readers that Professor Dan Zhao of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Professor Chunzhong Li of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), are joining our team of editors. Their appointments with I&EC Research began on June 1. Prof. Zhao is the Dean’s Chair Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NUS and a Clarivate

Recently, Drs. Mirosław Grzesik and Krzysztof A. Szymonski commented on our paper published in the journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research entitled “Erroneous Application of Pseudo-Second Order Adsorption Kinetics Model: Ignored Assumptions and Spurious Correlations”.(1) We appreciate this discussion as the inappropriate use of various equations was what prompted us to analyze this problem

Depolymerization and defunctionalization methods for existing chemicals that can allow circularity, especially for plastics; Design of circular systems with consideration of human health and ecotoxicity, ideally via rational design of benign commodity chemicals; Systematic application of life-cycle analysis, or thinking, and process metrics in developing new manufacturing/synthetic routes; Implementation

We accept with hesitation the authors’ explanation regarding the “pseudo-second-order” term, which is identical to the one by Ho.(7) Following such a train of thought, the process described by eq 3 which runs toward AS2, should be of first-order with respect to CA and of pseudo-second-order with respect to CAS. Equations 6 and 7 are nonlinear, and likewise, nonlinear is the transformation from eq 6