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CCl4 decomposition by gliding arc plasma: role of C2 compounds on products distribution Manuscript id: 130-06 Author response of the 2nd reviewer General questions: Question: The citations in the Introduction part of the manuscript are obsolete. Please swap

them with recent ones. Answer: Thank you very much. Regarding the literature, following the suggestion of reviewer, we changed almost all of the old references with the new one. In case of primary reference, for example: kinetics data that we need for the simulation, we still keep it in our manuscript because that kind of data will not change or different in the future.

Question: The graph, related to the experimental and calculated conversion of CCl4, is

missing. In this way it is impossible to appoint all about the quality and the main goal of the calculations. Answer: Thank you. In case of the conversion of CCl4, we did not do simulation calculation. What we have done is simulating the ways of the reaction after the destruction process of CCl 4. We calculated the intermediate species and the products of the reaction. In case of CCl4 conversion in the plasma condition, it was not only caused by temperature (thermal cracking) and reaction reactants and intermediate species but also the reaction with electron. The role of electron can be dominant factor (Eliasson, B., Nonequilibrium volume plasma chemical processing, 1991. IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 19(6), 1063-1077) because electron has enough energy and faster than molecule or ion (the size of electron is smaller than ions or molecules). Without the data of total number electron produced in gliding arc, it is very difficult to do the calculation on the conversion of CCl4.

Question: The sources of data in Table 1. are not given. Refine the determination of Table 1

in the text (Page 8.), please. Which of them are calculated and which are cited? If some of them are cited, give the related reference, please. If it contains the calculated results, it is necessary to give the data and the sources of the initial iteration.

Answer : Thank you very much. In the revised manuscript, we put additional information of the sources of the literature. All of reaction kinetics used in this simulation was obtained from those references. We did not do any calculations on the kinetic constant.