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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 158067, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/158067
Research Article

Modeling Approach for Determining Equivalent Optical Constants of Plastic Shading Nets under Solar Radiation Conditions

A. M. Abdel-Ghany1,2 and I. M. Al-Helal1

1Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
2Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Energy Engineering, South Valley University, Aswan 81528, Egypt

Received 16 February 2012; Accepted 3 August 2012

Academic Editor: Fengqiang Sun

Copyright © 2012 A. M. Abdel-Ghany and I. M. Al-Helal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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