CAbbreviations and Acronyms
- a.m.u.
- Atomic mass unit
- ABWR
- Advanced Boiling Water Reactor
- AC
- Alternating current
- ACAA
- American Coal and Ash Association
- ACR
- Advanced CANDU reactor
- AEO
- Annual Energy Outlook (a publication of IEA)
- AFC
- Alkaline Fuel Cell
- Ah
- Ampere‐hour
- ALWR
- Advanced Light Water Reactor
- AM
- Air Mass
- API
- American Petroleum Institute
- ASHRAE
- The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air‐Conditioning Engineers
- ASTM
- American Society for Testing and Materials
- AWEA
- American Wind Power Association
- Bbl
- Billion barrel
- bcm
- Billion cubic meter
- BGR
- Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany)
- BJT
- Bipolar Junction Transistor
- BOP
- Blowout preventer
- BP
- British Petroleum
- Bq
- Becquerel (SI of radioactivity)
- BTL
- Biomass‐to‐liquids
- Btu
- British thermal unit; quadrillion quad (1015 Btu)
- BWR
- Boiling Water Reactor
- CAA
- The Clean Air Act
- CAL
- Calorie, a unit of energy
- CANDU
- Canada Deuterium Uranium pressurized‐heavy water reactor
- CAPP
- Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
- CBM
- Coal bed methane
- CCGT
- Combined cycle gas turbine
- CCP
- Coal combustion products such as fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag
- cgs
- Centimeter‐gram‐second system
- CHP
- Combined heat and power (also called cogeneration)
- CHPP
- Coal handling and preparation plant
- CIS
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- COP21
- 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (United Nations Climate Change Conference)
- CPC
- Compound Parabolic Collectors
- CPUC
- California ...
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