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PAPERBACK list:$50.75 Web:$45.68 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase Two) Other Related Titles Carbon Management: Implications for R & D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology (A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable) (2001) Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 222   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Page 222 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 Page 222 Front Matter (R1-R12) Summary (1-6) 1. Carbon Management: The Challenge (7-32) 2. Carbon Dioxide Mitigation: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century (33-43) 3. An Industry Perspective on Carbon Management (44-59) 4. Opportunities for Carbon Control in the Electric Power Industry (60-82) 5. Carbon Dioxide as a Feedstock (83-92) 6. Advanced Engine and Fuel Systems Development for Minimizing Carbon Dioxide Generation (93-110) 7. Renewable Energy: Generation, Storage, and Utilization (111-126) 8. Industrial Carbon Management: An Overview (127-146) 9. Managing Carbon Losses for Selective Oxidation Catalysis (147-158) 10. Increasing Efficiencies for Hydrocarbon Activation (159-165) 11. Commodity Polymers from Renewable Resources: Polyactic Acid (166-184) 12. Chemicals from Plants (185-208) Appendix A: Workshop Participants (209-213) Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers (214-219) Appendix C: Origin of and Information on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (220-221) Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations (222-224)

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Page 222 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

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Page 223 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

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