Thermal and Electrical Performance of Uncooled, Nature-Cooled, and Photovoltaic Thermal Module

Table 4

Comparison of results with the other studies.

Researchers	Type of study	Back surface attachment	Efficiency improvement (%)
Grubišić-Čabo et al. [25]	Experimental	Perforated fins (random arrangement)	2
Hamdan et al. [26]	Experimental	Phase change material (PCM)	2.6
Arifin et al. [15]	Experimental	Heat sink with fins	2.4
Elbreki et al. [13]	Experimental	Lapping fins and planar reflector	1.39
Kiwan et al. [27]	Modeling and Simulation	Phase change material (PCM)	1-2
This study	Experimental	Biomaterial (moist coconut fiber)	3.11