Exergoeconomic and Enviroeconomic
Analysis of Flat Plate Collector:
A Comparative Study
Prateek Negi, Ravi Kanojia, Ritvik Dobriyal, and Desh Bandhu Singh
Abstract Energy resources and their usage intimately relate to sustainable develop-
ment. Solar flat plate collectors are widely used to collect solar radiation for various
applications. Many hybrid systems which include flat plate collector integrated with
photovoltaic/thermal panel has gone through various developments and analysis
based on energy, exergy, and exergy based environment, exergy based economic anal-
ysis and shows great achievements for its applications. This presents paper briefly
reviews exergoeconomic and enviroeconomic and some performance analysis of a
hybrid flat plate collector to be a useful tool in assessing their thermal efficiency,
economic aspect and environmental impact.
Keywords Exergoeconomic · Enviroeconomic · Flat plate collector · Photovoltaic
thermal · Exergy
1 Introduction
Due to the ever-increasing demand for energy over the years and rapidly exhausting
sources of energy like fossil fuels (which includes coal, petroleum, and natural
gas) has put emphasis to migrate towards non-conventional sources of energy. Solar
energy is considered as one of the renewable energy sources and harnessing solar
energy with the help of solar thermal collectors and photovoltaic can be found useful
for various applications like solar water heating, solar drying, distillation, etc. Flat
plate collector is the most common among the solar thermal collectors which absorb
solar radiation for heating of fluid which is then supplied to the end-user to satisfy the
demand of hot water and is considered to be an alternative to conventional geysers. In
order to optimise the system for improved output, various analyses need to be done.
For many years thermodynamics and economic parameters are the basis for the anal-
ysis of the system [1] because the numerical method may be inadequate to optimize
P. Negi · R. Kanojia · R. Dobriyal · D. B. Singh (B )
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Bell Road,
Clement Town, Dehradun 248002, Uttarakhand, India
e-mail: dbsiit76@gmail.com
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