An investigation on dissimilarity of mass flow rate and N on exergo-enviro-economic parameters for solar still of single slope type integrated with N similar PVT flat plate collectors having series connection.

This paper investigates analytically the effect of dissimilarity of mass flow rate (m ˙ f) and number of collectors (N) on exergo-enviro-economic parameters for solar still of single slope type integrated with N similar photovoltaic thermal flat plate collectors having series connection (NPVTFPC-SS) keeping water depth as 0.14 m. All four kinds of weather conditions for New Delhi have been taken for the computation of different parameters. All relevant equations obtained using energy balance equations for all components of the system have been fed to a computer code inscribed in MATLAB-2015a for computing different parameters. The computation of different relevant parameters has been performed for various values of m ˙ f and N while keeping water depth as constant to know the effect of variation of m ˙ f and N on exergo-enviro-economic parameters for NPVTFPC-SS. It has been concluded that the value of carbon credit earned, enviroeconomic and exegoeconomic parameters, and productivity diminishes with the enhancement in m ˙ f at given N. The optimum value of N for given value of m ˙ f has been found to be 10 from exergoeconomic parameter viewpoint and 6 from productivity viewpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]