| Acronym | Meaning |
| BASTE | Bay Area Sewage Toxics Emissions |
| BRITE | Basic Research In Industrial Technologies For Europe |
| UASB | Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket |
| SCGE | Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis |
| KKRASA | Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Atomic-sphere Approxn. (in Band Structure) |
| DAL | Defect Action Level |
| HRFS | High-resolution Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| RBCODUR | Readily Biodegradable Chemical Oxygen Demand Uptake Rate |
| QDM | Quantum Defect Method |
| A/PI | Ab Initio Perturbed Ion (quantum Clacn. Method) |