ISHS Acta Horticulturae 245: Engineering and Economic Aspects of Energy Saving in Protected Cultivation
TRANSMISSION AND FORWARD SCATTERING OF INSOLATION THROUGH PLASTIC GREENHOUSE CLADDING MATERIALS |
| Authors: | S.A.M. Burek, B. Norton, S.D. Probert |
| Abstract:
An experimental procedure is described to determine transmittance and scattering coefficients, using a test rig both, outdoors under prevailing climatic conditions, and indoors under a solar simulator. The results of tests on several transparent and semi-transparent plastic materials are reported, showing the transmittance and scattering coefficients for each and the variation of these coefficients with the angle of incidence of the direct insolation. | |
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