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Correction: General component additivity, reaction engineering, and machine learning models for hydrothermal liquefaction

Peter M. Guirguis and Phillip E. Savage*
Chemical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 121D CBEB Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: psavage@psu.edu

Received 26th November 2025 , Accepted 26th November 2025

First published on 7th January 2026


Abstract

Correction for ‘General component additivity, reaction engineering, and machine learning models for hydrothermal liquefaction’ by Peter M. Guirguis et al., RSC Sustainability, 2025, 3, 1788–1799, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SU00737A.


The authors regret that the incorrect values were given in Table 3 for the activation energy and the rate constant at 350 °C for k2,Pe,Ps due to a copy/paste error. Instead of 49.7 kJ mol−1 and 1.02 min−1, as shown in the table, the values should be 57.5 kJ mol−1 and 0.226 min−1. These corrections do not alter any of the figures or discussion in the manuscript and the conclusions remain unchanged as well. The authors apologize for this error and any difficulty it may have caused for interested readers.

The correct Table 3 reads as follow:

Table 3 Parameters for the reaction engineering model in Fig. 3 coupled with eqn (12)
Parameter label ln[A] (ln[min−1]) Ea (kJ mol−1) k@350 °C (min−1) Parameter label ln[A] (ln[min−1]) Ea (kJ mol−1) k@350 °C (min−1)
k1,Pe −0.107 0.00860 0.897 k1,Pe,Ft 40.6 203 4.26
k1,Ft 10.2 33.5 40.7 k1,Pe,Ps 10.9 105 9.04 × 10−5
k1,Ce 7.55 47.9 0.184 k1,Pe,Lg 20.6 85.5 62.7
k1,He 13.8 88.1 0.0387 k1,Ft,Ps 7.88 25.2 20.2
k1,St 7.42 40.5 0.668 k1,Ft,Lg 4.73 1.33 87.6
k1,Lg −2.82 4.35 0.0257 k1,Ps,Lg 45.3 248 0.0758
k2,Pe 0.370 5.18 0.533 k2,Pe,Ft 15.4 54.5 126
k2,Ft 1.73 3.39 2.93 k2,Pe,Ps 9.62 57.5 0.226
k2,Ce 10.1 69.9 0.0353 k2,Pe,Lg 4.47 17.9 2.74
k2,He 14.3 86.8 0.0887 k2,Ft,Ps 16.0 57.4 133
k2,St 9.18 58.7 0.116 k2,Ft,Lg 19.1 36.7 1.66 × 105
k2,Lg −2.05 13.9 0.00872 k2,Ps,Lg 25.7 227 1.35 × 10−8
k3 6.30 214 6.07 × 10−16 k5 −2.86 10.9 0.00696
k4 2.11 48.9 0.00066 k6 14.3 107 0.00181


The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.


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