RETRACTED: A novel combined power generation and argon liquefaction system; investigation and optimization of energy, exergy, and entransy phenomena

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.In investigating concerns brought up regarding inappropriate advertisement of the authorship of the article, the editor reached out to the authors for an explanation.Post-publication, the editor also discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper.In summary, the paper was submitted by a sole author, Mahrad Feyzbaxsh. During revision, the author names Arif Sari (New First Author), Walid Kamal Abdelbasset, Maria Jade Catalan Opulencia, Himanshu Sharma, Azher Abed, Shaymaa Abed Hussein, Bashar S. Bashar, Ali Thaeer Hammid, A. S. Prakaash and Khusniddin Fakhriddinovich Uktamov were all added to the revised paper without explanation and without the exceptional approval by the journal Editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship.The Editor reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes.Overall, the Editor feels that the findings of the manuscript cannot be relied upon, and the article needs to be retracted.Mahrad Feyzbaxsh disagrees with the retraction of the article and disputes the grounds for it.