Letter Report on: The Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant's Water Recovery System (2012)
Chapter: ATTACHMENT B ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
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"ATTACHMENT B ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS." National Research Council. 2012. Letter Report on: The Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant's Water Recovery System. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/13372.
ATTACHMENT B
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
| ASTM | American Society of Testing and Materials |
| BGCAPP | Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant |
| GB GPM/ft2 |
a nerve agent, also known as sarin gallons per minute per square foot |
| H | mustard agent |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| MF | microfiltration |
| MIC | microbiologically induced corrosion |
| MOC | materials of construction |
| mV | millivolt |
| NACE | National Association of Corrosion Engineers |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| PACl | polyaluminum chloride |
| PMACWA | Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives |
| ppm | parts per million |
| PRE | pitting resistance equivalent |
| psig | pounds per square inch gauge |
| RO | reverse osmosis |
| SCC | stress corrosion cracking |
| SCE | saturated calomel electrode |
| SCWO | supercritical water oxidation |
| SDI | silt density index |
| SEC | specific energy consumption |
| SWRO | seawater reverse osmosis |
| TDS | total dissolved solids |
| UF | ultrfiltration |
| VX | a nerve agent |
| WRS | water recovery system |
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