List Of Abbreviations
Last updated on 24 Jan 2013 17:05 by Kevin Hausmann
| AbfAblV | Ordinance on Environmentally Compatible Storage of Waste from Human Settlements and on Biological Waste-Treatment Facilities (Abfallablagerungsverordnung - AbfAblV) |
| ABL | Old German Länder |
| AGEB | Working Group on Energy Balances (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen) |
| AK | Working group (Arbeitskreis) |
| ALH | All other deciduous trees with high life expectancies (Tree-species group as defined within the Federal Forest Inventory (BWI)) |
| ALN | All other deciduous trees with low life expectancies (Tree-species group as defined within the BWI) |
| ANCAT | Abatement of Nuisances from Civil Air Transport |
| AR | Activity rate |
| AWMS | Animal Waste Management System |
| B0 | Maximal CH4-production capacity |
| BAFA | Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle) |
| BAT | Best Available Technique |
| BDZ | Federal Association of the German Cement Industry (Bundesverband der Deutschen Zementindustrie) |
| BEF | Biomass expansion factors |
| BEU | Balance of emissions sources for stationary and mobile combustion processes (Bilanz der Emissionsursachen für stationäre und mobile Verbrennungsprozesse) |
| BGR | Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe) |
| BGW | Federal Association of the German Gas and Water Industry (Bundesverband der deutschen Gas- and Wasserwirtschaft) |
| BHD | Breast-height diameter: tree-trunk diameter at a height of 1.30 m above the ground |
| BHKW | micro-CHP (CHP = combined heat/power generating system) (Blockheizkraftwerk) |
| BImSchV | Statutory Ordinance under the Federal Immission Control Act |
| BML | see BMVEL |
| BMU | Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety |
| BMELV | Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection |
| BMVEL | see BMELV |
| BMVG | Federal Ministry of Defence |
| BMWA | see BMWi |
| BMWi | Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology |
| BoHE | Main survey on soil use (Bodennutzungshaupterhebung) |
| BREF | BAT (Best Available Technique) Reference Documents |
| BSB | Biological oxygen demand (BOD) |
| BSB5 | Biological oxygen demand (BOD) within 5 days |
| BV Kalk | German Lime Association (Bundesverband der Deutschen Kalkindustrie) |
| BWI | Bundeswaldinventur (Federal Forest Inventory) |
| BZE | Survey of soil condition (Bodenzustandserhebung) |
| C2F6 | Hexafluoroethane |
| CAPIEL | Coordinating Committee for the Associations of Manufacturers of Industrial Electrical Switchgear and Controlgear in the European Union |
| CFC | Chlorofluorocarbons (= Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoffe (FCKW)) |
| CH4 | Methane |
| CLRTAP | Convention on long range transboundary air pollution |
| Corg | Organic carbon stored in the soil |
| CO | Carbon monoxide |
| CO2 | Carbon dioxide |
| CORINAIR | Coordination of Information on the Environment, sub-project: Air |
| CORINE | Coordinated Information on the Environment |
| CRF | Common Reporting Format |
| CSB | Chemical oxygen demand (COD) |
| D | Germany (Deutschland) |
| D7 | Tree-trunk diameter at a height of 7 m above the ground |
| DEHSt | German Emissions Trading Agency (Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle) |
| DESTATIS | Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland) |
| DFIU | Franco-German Institute for Environmental Research, at the University of Karlsruhe |
| DG | Landfill gas |
| DGMK | German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal (Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle e.V.) |
| DIN | Deutsche Industrienorm (DIN standard) |
| DIW | German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) |
| DLR | German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) |
| DMKW | Diesel-engine power stations |
| DN | N in wastewater |
| DOC | Degradable organic carbon |
| DOCF | Fraction of DOC dissimilated |
| DTKW | Steam-turbine power stations |
| DVGW | German Association of Gas and Water Professionals (Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas- und Wasserfachs e.V.) |
| EBZ | Line-number in the BEU |
| EEA | European Environment Agency |
| EECA | European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association |
| EEG | Renewable Energy Sources Act (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz; text in Federal Law Gazette Part I No. 40 of 31 July 2004, p. 1918 ff.) |
| EF | Emission factor |
| EI | Emissions index = Emission factor |
| EKA | Einwohner mit Kläranlagenanschluss (Inhabitants connected to wastewater-treatment systems) |
| EL | Extra light (heating oil) |
| EM | Emission |
| EMEP | Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-Range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe |
| EMEV | Emissions-relevant energy consumption (Emissionsrelevanter Energieverbrauch) |
| ESIA | European Semiconductor Industry Association |
| EU | European Union |
| EU-EH | European Emissions Trading System (ETS; Europäischer Emissionshandel) |
| EUROCONTROL | European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation |
| EUROSTAT | Statistical Office of the European Communities |
| EW | Population equivalents (Einwohnerzahl) |
| FA | Combustion systems |
| FAP | Co-ordinating expert (German: Fachlicher Ansprechpartner), assigned to organize the work in specific NaSE source categories |
| FAL | Federal Agricultural Research Institute |
| FAO | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation |
| FCKW | Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs; Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoffe) |
| F gases | Fluorinated hydrocarbons |
| FHW | District heating stations |
| FKW | Perfluorocarbons (PFCs; Fluorkohlenwasserstoffe) |
| FKZ | Research index (Forschungskennziffer) |
| FV | Relevant expert (German: Fachverantwortlicher) assigned to cover specific NaSE source categories |
| FWL | Thermal output from combustion (Feuerungswärmeleistung) |
| GAS-EM | GASeous EMissions – A calculation programme for emissions from agriculture |
| GEREF | GERman Emission Factor Database |
| GFA | Large combustion systems (Großfeuerungsanlagen) |
| GG | Total weight (Gesamtgewicht) |
| GIS | Gas-insulated switching systems |
| GMBL | Joint Ministerial Gazette (Gemeinsames Ministerialblatt) |
| GMKW | Gas-engine power stations |
| GPG | Good Practice Guidance |
| GT | Gas turbines |
| GTKW | Gas-turbine power stations |
| GuD | Gas and steam turbine power stations |
| GWP | Global Warming Potential |
| HFC | Hydrofluorocarbons (German: Wasserstoffhaltige Fluorkohlenwasserstoffe – HFKW) |
| HCFC | Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (German: Wasserstoffhaltige Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoffe – HFCKW) |
| HQG | Key category (Hauptquellgruppe); includes both emissions sources and sinks. |
| HS-GIS | High-voltage and gas-insulated switching systems |
| IAI | International Aluminium Institute |
| ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organisation |
| IE | Included elsewhere |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| IEF | Implied emission factor |
| IfE | Institute for Energy and Environment (Institut für Energetik und Umwelt) |
| IFEU | Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung) |
| IKW | Industrial power stations |
| IMA | Interministerial Working Group (Interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe) |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change |
| K | Fuel input for power generation (direct drive) |
| k.A. | keine Angabe (no entry) |
| KP | Kyoto Protocol |
| KS | Sewage sludge |
| l | Level (used in the level assessment pursuant to IPCC Good Practice Guidance) |
| LF | Agriculturally used land (German: Landwirtschaftlich genutzte Flächen) |
| LKW | Truck (Lastkraftwagen) |
| LTO | Landing/take-off cycle |
| LUCF | Land-use change and forestry |
| LULUCF | Land use, land-use change and forestry |
| MBA | Mechanical-biological waste treatment (german: Mechanisch-Biologische Abfallbehandlung) |
| MCF | Methane conversion factor |
| MFC | Factor for quality of landfill-gas management (methane correction factor) |
| MS | Medium voltage |
| MSW | Amount of municipal waste stored |
| MVA | Waste incineration plant (Müllverbrennungsanlage) |
| MW | Megawatt |
| N2O | Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) |
| NA | Not applicable |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NaSE | National System of Emissions Inventories |
| NBL | New German Länder |
| NE | Not estimated |
| NEAT | Non-energy Emission Accounting Tables |
| NEC | National emission ceilings for certain air pollutants, pursuant to Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain air pollutants |
| NEV | Non-energy-related consumption (Nichtenergetischer Verbrauch) |
| NFR | Nomenclature for Reporting (new format for reporting to UN ECE) |
| NFZ | Utility vehicles (Nutzfahrzeuge) |
| NH3 | Ammonia |
| NIR | National Inventory Report |
| NMVOC | Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds |
| NO | Not occurring |
| NO | Nitrogen monoxide |
| NSCR | Non-selective catalytic reduction |
| OCF | One-component foam (installation foam) |
| OX | Oxidation factor |
| PAH | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (German: Polycyclische aromatische Kohlenwasserstoffe (PAK)) |
| PAK | see PAH |
| PARTEMIS | Measurement and prediction of emissions of aerosols and gaseous precursors from gas turbine engines |
| PCCD/F | Polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins/- furans |
| PF | Process furnaces |
| PFC | Perfluorocarbons |
| PKW | Automobile (Personenkraftwagen) |
| PU | Polyurethane |
| QK | Quality control (QC) |
| QS | Quality assurance (QA) |
| QSE | Quality System for Emissions Inventories |
| REA | Flue gas desulphurising plant (German: Rauchgasentschwefelungsanlage) |
| ROE | Oil equivalent (German: Rohöleinheiten) |
| RSt | Raw steel |
| RWI | Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung |
| S | Fuel input for power generation |
| S | Heavy (German: schwer); used in describing types of heating oil |
| S&A report | Synthesis and Assessment Report |
| SA | Heavy (German: schwer) and low in sulphur (German: schwefelarm); used in describing types of heating oil |
| SF6 | Sulphur hexafluoride |
| SKE | Hard-coal units (Steinkohleneinheiten) |
| SNAP | Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution |
| SO2 | Sulphur dioxide |
| STEAG | STEAG stock corporation: large electricity producer in Germany |
| t | Trend (used in the level assessment pursuant to IPCC Good Practice Guidance) |
| TA Luft | Technical instructions on air quality control; First General Administrative Provision on the Federal Immission Control Act |
| TAN | Total Ammoniacal Nitrogen |
| THG | Greenhouse gases (Treibhausgase = GHG) |
| TM | Dry mass (Trockenmasse) |
| TOC | Total Organic Carbon |
| TREMOD | Traffic Emission Estimation Model |
| TS | Dry matter (Trockenstoff) |
| TÜV | Technischer Überwachungs-Verein (Certifying body for technical and product safety) |
| TVF | Tonne of utilisable production (Tonne verwertbare Förderung) |
| UBA | Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) |
| UN ECE | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
| UN FCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| UN | United Nations |
| UStatG | Environmental Statistics Act (Umweltstatistikgesetz) |
| VDEW | Electricity Industry Association (Verband der Elektrizitätswirtschaft e.V.) |
| VDI | Association of German Engineers (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V.) |
| VDN | Association of network operators (Verband der Netzbetreiber) |
| VDZ | German Cement Works Association (Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V.) |
| VfmD | Solid cubic meters of standing timber (Vorratsfestmeter Derbholz) |
| VGB | Technical association of operators of large power stations (Technische Vereinigung der Großkraftwerksbetreiber e.V.) |
| VIK | Verband der Industriellen Energie- and Kraftwirtschaft e.V. (VIK) (Association of the Energy and Power Industry), Essen |
| VOC | Volatile Organic Compounds |
| W | Fuel input for heat generation |
| WS | WS = Portion of a specific waste water treatment system (e.g. aerobic, anaerobic) |
| XPS | Extruded polystyrene |
| ZSE | Central System of Emissions (CSE) |
