Retraction Note: Thermal studies of biomass obtained from the seeds of Syzygiumcumini and CassiafistulaL. and peel of CassiafistulaL. fruit(Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, (2021), 13, (7601-7612), 10.1007/s13399-021-01492-z)

Abstract

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because of similarities between the data in this article and the data in another article [1] published within a close time frame with overlapping authors, which studies different sources of biomass. It seems that while both articles describe different biomasses, a number of figures appear to be highly similar: The temperature curves in Figure 1 appear to be highly similar to the temperature curves in Figure 1 of [1], despite different bulk densities between the two sources of biomass. The temperature curves in Figure 2 appear to be highly similar to the temperature curves in Figure 2 of [1], despite different bulk densities between the two sources of biomass. The temperature curves in Figure 1 appear to be highly similar to the temperature curves in Figure 1 of [1], despite different bulk densities between the two sources of biomass. The temperature curves in Figure 2 appear to be highly similar to the temperature curves in Figure 2 of [1], despite different bulk densities between the two sources of biomass. Additionally, the values in the tables for the physical-chemical properties appear to be identical. It was also found that the reported starting conditions appear to be identical on different reported measuring days. As a result of these unlikely similarities, the Editor-in-Chief no longer has confidence in the data, results and conclusions of this article. Corresponding author Dan Bahadur Pal has stated on behalf of all co-authors that they do not agree with this retraction. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2024.