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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2001. Carbon Management: Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10153.
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D

Acronyms and Definitions

Annex 1 Developed countries that agreed to emissions commitments in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations

AOG Abundant oil and gas; a reference energy system

ATS Advanced turbine systems

Carbon intensity Carbon per unit energy

CANDU Canada Deuterium Uranium

CBF Coal bridge to the future—a reference energy system

DOE Department of Energy

EIA U.S. Energy Information Administration

EOR Enhanced oil recovery

EPRI Electric Power Research Institute

ESP Electrostatic precipitation

FCC Fluid catalytic cracker

FCCC See UNFCCC

FGC Fuel gas desulfurization

GDP Gross domestic product

GNP Genetically modified organisms

GMO Gross national (or world) product

GRAS Generally recognized as safe

GtC Gigatonnes carbon (109 tons)

HRSG Heat recovery steam generator

ICM Industrial Carbon Management

IEA International Energy Agency

IGCC Integrated gasification combined cycle

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2001. Carbon Management: Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10153.
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IS92a,b,… Future scenerios of IPCC based on assumptions, the more significant of which are population, population growth, rate of end-use energy intensity improvement, andelasticity of energy demand

LCI Life cycle inventory

Mw(e) Megawatts of electric power

NGO Non-governmental organization

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OGF Same as AOG

oxyfuel Fuel burned in oxygen that has been separated from air prior to burning.

PCC Post-combustion capture

PCDC Pre-combustion decarbonization

PET polyethylene teraphthalate

PLA Polylactic acid

PNGV Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles

ppmv Parts per million volume

PSI Pounds per square inch

PV Photovoltaic

Quad 1015 BTU. This is approximately equal to 0.2 billion tonnes of carbon

SCFD Standard cubic feet per day

ton 2000 lb, used by some writers. See tonne,

tonne Metric ton, equal to 2202 lb. The standard unit for projection is tonnes of carbon. This should be differentiated from tonnes of CO2, which is a factor of 11/3 larger than tonnes carbon

UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Also FCCC

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2001. Carbon Management: Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10153.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2001. Carbon Management: Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10153.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2001. Carbon Management: Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10153.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2001. Carbon Management: Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10153.
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Considerable international concerns exist about global climate change and its relationship to the growing use of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide is released by chemical reactions that are employed to extract energy from fuels, and any regulatory policy limiting the amount of CO2 that could be released from sequestered sources or from energy-generating reactions will require substantial involvement of the chemical sciences and technology R&D community.

Much of the public debate has been focused on the question of whether global climate change is occurring and, if so, whether it is anthropogenic, but these questions were outside the scope of the workshop, which instead focused on the question of how to respond to a possible national policy of carbon management. Previous discussion of the latter topic has focused on technological, economic, and ecological aspects and on earth science challenges, but the fundamental science has received little attention. This workshop was designed to gather information that could inform the Chemical Sciences Roundtable in its discussions of possible roles that the chemical sciences community might play in identifying and addressing underlying chemical questions.

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