Research Article
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 |
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