| Acronyms |
| AEO |
U.S. DOE Annual Energy Outlook |
| AIHA |
American Industrial Hygienist Association |
| ANL |
U.S. DOE Argonne National Laboratory |
| APEX |
Aircraft Particle Emissions Experiment |
| APG |
Annual Performance Goal |
| APPCD |
U.S. EPA Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division |
| APS |
Aerodynamic Particle Sizer |
| AQA |
U.S. EPA GCRP Air Quality Assessment |
| AQCD |
Air Quality Criteria Document |
| Buy Clean |
EPA’s National Buy Clean Program, which calls for partnership with key stakeholders to promote the purchasing of products and services for healthy indoor environments in schools and to identify effective incentive mechanisms for the development, marketing, and procurement of lower risk products. |
| BZ |
Breathing Zone |
| CAIR |
Clean Air Interstate Rule |
| CAMR |
Clean Air Mercury Rule |
| CCR |
Coal Combustion Residue |
| CCRI |
Climate Change Research Initiative |
| CEM |
Continuous Emission Monitor |
| CFD |
Computational fluid dynamics, a numerical modeling method |
| CO2 |
Carbon Dioxide |
| CONTAMW |
Software developed by NIST for computing multi-zone airflow and contaminant transport within buildings |
| CPLEX |
CPLEX optimization software |
| CRADA |
Cooperative research and development agreement |
| DEAL |
Diesel Emissions Aerosol Laboratory |
| DEP |
Diesel Exhaust Particle |
| DNPH |
Di-nitrophenylhydrazine |
| DOE |
U.S. Department of Energy |
| DST |
Decision Support Tool |
| EC |
Elemental Carbon |
| ECD |
Electron Capture Detector |
| EERE |
U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
| EGAS |
Economic Growth Analysis System |
| EIA |
U.S. DOE Energy Information Administration |
| EMPAX-CGE |
Environmental Policy Analysis-Computable General Equilibrium model |
| EPRI |
Electric Power Research Institute |
| ESP |
Electrostatic Precipitator |
| ETSAP |
Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme |
| FCV |
Fuel Cell Vehicle |
| FGD |
Flue Gas Desulfurization |
| FID |
Flame Ionization Detector |
| FLEC |
Field and Laboratory Emission Cell |
| GC |
Gas Chromatograph |
| GC/MS |
Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometry |
| GCDST |
Global Change and Decision Support Tools |
| GCRA |
U.S. Global Change Research Act |
| GCRP |
U.S. Global Change Research Program |
| GPRA |
Government Performance Review Act |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| H2 |
Hydrogen |
| HCl |
Hydrochloric Acid |
| Hg |
Mercury |
| Hg0 |
Elemental Mercury |
| Hg2+ |
Ionic (divalent) Mercury |
| HPLC |
High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| HVAC |
Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning System |
| IAQ |
Indoor Air Quality |
| IAQX |
Microsoft windows-based indoor air quality simulation program developed by APPCD. |
| IAQX |
Indoor Air Quality and Exposure. |
| i-BES |
Intelligent Built Environmental System, a term used in the Syracuse University program to describe a building designed and operated for optimized, cost-effective control of contaminants in occupant breathing zones |
| IC |
Ion Chromatography |
| ICP/AES |
Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy |
| IEQ |
Indoor Environmental Quality |
| IPCC |
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPM |
U.S. EPA Integrated Planning Model |
| ISA-W APPCD |
Integrated Strategic Assessment Workgroup |
| JETS |
Jet Engine Testing for Speciation a California Air Resources research program |
| LBNL |
U.S. DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| LTG |
Long-Term Goal |
| MARKAL |
MARket ALlocation energy-economic optimization model |
| MARKAL-ETL |
Endogenous Technology Learning version of MARKAL |
| MGA |
Modeling to Generate Alternatives |
| MIMS |
Multimedia Integrated Modeling System |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MPCRF |
Multi-Pollutant Control Research Facility |
| MS |
Mass Spectrometer |
| MSW |
Municipal Solid Waste |
| MYP |
Multi-year Plan |
| NAAQS |
National Ambient Air Quality Standard |
| NaHS |
Sodium Hydrosulfide |
| NCER |
U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental Research |
| NE |
New England |
| NE-MARKAL NESCAUM |
New England MARKAL model |
| NEMS |
U.S. DOE National Energy Modeling System |
| NERC |
North American Reliability Council |
| NERL |
U.S. EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory |
| NESCAUM |
Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management |
| NETL |
U.S. DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory |
| NHEERL |
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory |
| NIST |
National Institute of Science and Technology |
| nm |
Nanometer |
| NO |
Nitric Oxide |
| NOX |
Oxides of Nitrogen |
| NOx |
Oxides of Nitrogen |
| NRC |
National Research Council |
| NRMRL |
U.S. EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory |
| NRMRL |
National Risk Management Research Laboratory |
| O3 |
Ozone |
| OAP |
U.S. EPA (OAR) Office of Atmospheric Programs |
| OAQPS |
U.S. EPA (OAR) Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards |
| OAR |
U.S. EPA Office of Air and Radiation |
| OARM |
U.S. EPA Office of Administration and Resource Management |
| OC |
Organic Carbon |
| ORD |
U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development |
| OSW |
Office of Solid Waste |
| OTAQ |
U.S. EPA (OAR) Office of Transportation and Air Quality |
| OTT |
U.S. DOE Office Transportation Technologies |
| PCR |
Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PDPA |
Phase Doppler Particle Anemometry |
| PFOA |
Perfluorooctanoic Acid |
| PFOS |
Perfluorooctanoic Sulfonate |
| PIV |
Particle Image Velocimetry |
| PM |
Particulate Matter |
| PM10 |
Particulate Matter Smaller Than 10 μm in aerodynamic diameter |
| PM2.5 |
Particulate Matter Smaller Than 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter |
| PNNL |
U.S. DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratories |
| ppm |
Parts per million |
| PRB |
Powder River Basin |
| PSI |
Policy Studies Institute (London) |
| PV |
Solar Photovoltaic |
| PVD |
Personal Ventilation Device |
| R&D |
Research and Development |
| RD&D |
Research, Development, and Demonstration |
| REMI |
Regional Economic Models, Incorporated |
| RES |
Reference Energy System |
| REVA |
U.S. EPA (NERL) Regional Vulnerability Assessment |
| RH |
Relative Humidity |
| ROFA |
Residual Oil Fly Ash |
| Rom |
Reduced Order Models that attempt to reproduce the results from more sophisticated CFD models, but that utilize various simplification methods to substantially reduce the computational time. Required when it is desired to use the results from complex transport models in quick-response automatic control systems |
| RTI |
Research Triangle Institute International |
| SAGE |
U.S. DOE System for the Analysis of Global Energy markets |
| SCR |
Selective Catalytic Reduction |
| SEQL |
Sustainable Environment for Quality of Living project |
| SHEDS |
Stochastic Human Exposure and Dose Simulation |
| SMPS |
Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer |
| SO2 |
Sulphur Dioxide |
| SO3 |
Sulphur Trioxide |
| SOX |
Oxides of Sulphur |
| SRES |
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (IPCC) |
| SRI |
Southern Research Institute |
| STAR |
U.S. EPA Science to Achieve Results grants program |
| SVOC |
Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds |
| TIEQ |
Total Indoor Environmental Quality |
| TMT |
Trimercapto-s-triazine tri-Sodium |
| TVA |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
| TVOC |
Total Volatile Organic Compounds |
| U.S. DOE |
U.S. Department of Energy |
| um |
Micrometer |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| VOC |
Individual Volatile Organic Compounds |
| XAFS |
x-ray absorption fine structure |
| XRF |
x-ray fluorescence |
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