Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst (EU)
AFNOR
Association Française de Normalisation
AFPM
American Fuels and Petroleum Manufacturers
AFR
Air/Fuel Ratio
AFV
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
AGMA
American Gear Manufacturers Association
AGO
Automotive Gas Oil
AGP
Automotive Guidance Panel
AGV
Area Gray Values
AI
Active Ingredient
AIAG
Automotive Industry Action Group
AMAP
Aftermarket Audit Program (of API)
AMT
Automated Manual Transmission
AN
Acid Number or Alkylated Naphthalene
ANFAVEA
Associaçao Nacional dos Fabricantes de Veículos Automotores (association of vehicle manufacturers of Brasil)
ANPRM
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (USA EPA)
ANSES
Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
AOAP
Auto/Oil Advisory Panel
API
American Petroleum Institute
ASME
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM
ASTM International – Standard development organisation
ATC
Technical Committee of Petroleum Additive Manufacturers in Europe
ATF
Automatic Transmission Fluid
ATIEL
The technical association of the European lubricants industry
ATV
All-Terrain Vehicle
BCP
Bench, Chemical and Physical Properties
BDFI
Biodiesel Flow Improvers
BDSI
Biodiesel Stability Improvers
BEE
Bureau Européen de l’Environnement also EEB
BLF
British Lubricants Federation
BMEP
Brake Mean Effective Pressure
BN
Base Number
BNP
Bureau de Normalisation des Pétrole
BOCLE
Ball On Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator
BOI
Base Oil Interchange
BOISI
Base Oil Intra-slate Interchange
BP
Bore Polish
BRIC
Brazil, Russia, India and China
BRT
Ball Rust Test
BS
Base Stock or Bright Stock
BSI
British Standards Institute
BSN
Bacharach Smoke Number
BTC
BTC Testing Advisory Group (previously The British Technical Council of the Motor and Petroleum Industries)
BTU
British Thermal Units
CA
Competent Authority (of the European Commission)
CAAM
China Association of Automobile Manufacturers
CAF
Clean Air for Europe
CAFE
Corporate Average Fuel Economy
CAGR
Compound Annual Growth Rate
CARACAL
Competent Authorities for REACH Classification and Labelling
CARB
California Air Resources Board
CBI
Confidential Business Information
CCD
Combustion Chamber Deposit
CCMC
Comité des Constructeurs d’Automobiles du Marché Commun (obsolete, replaced by ACEA)
CCS
Cold Cranking Simulator
CD
Coefficient of Drag
CDX
Catalytic Dewaxing
CEC
Co-ordinating European Council for the Development of Performance Tests for Transportation Fuels, Lubricants & Other Fluids
CEFIC
European Chemical Industry Council
CEN
European Committee for Standardisation (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
CEPS
Central Europe Pipeline System
CFC
Chlorinated Fluorocarbon
CFPP
Cold Filter Plugging Point
CGO
Cracked Gas Oil
CHP
Combined Heat and Power
CI
Compression Ignition
CIA
Chemical Industries Association
CIMAC
International Council on Combustion Engines
CLEPA
European Association of Automotive Suppliers
CLOG
Category Life Oversight Group
CLP
Classification, Labelling and Packaging
CMS
Cummins Material Specification
CNG
Compressed Natural Gas
COAT
Caterpillar engine Oil Aeration Test
COC
Cleveland Open Cup (flash point)
CONCAWE
European Oil Company Organisation for Environment, Health and Safety. The acronym originally stood for ‘Conservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe’
CoP
Code of Practice
CoRAP
Community Rolling Action Programme
COSHH
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
cP
Centipoise
CPD
Cloud Point Depressant
CR
Common Rail (diesel injection)
CRC
Co-ordinating Research Council (USA)
CRT
Continuously Regenerating Trap
cSt
Centistokes
CSTCC
Controlled Slip Torque Converter Clutches
CUNA
Commissione Tecnica di Unificazione nell’Autoveicolo (Italy)
CV
Constant Velocity (joints)
CVL
Commercial Vehicle Lubricant
CVT
Continuously Variable Transmission
DASMIN
Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Mineralöl GmbH (D)
DCR
Declaration of REACH Conformity
DCT
Dual-Clutch Transmission
DEOP
Diesel Engine Oil Advisory Panel (API/EMA)
DFI
Direct Fuel Injection
DGMK
Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology (Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle e.V.) (D)
DHyCa
Direction des Hydrocarbures et des Carburants
DI
Detergent Inhibitor
DIN
Deutsches Institut für Normung – German Institute for Standardisation
DLC
Diamond-Like Carbon
DME
Di-Methyl Ether
DOC
Diesel Oxidation Catalyst
DOE
Department of Energy (USA)
DOHC
Double Overhead Cam (twin cam)
DPD
Dangerous Preparations Directive
DPF
Diesel Particulate Filter
DRC
Declaration of REACH Conformity
DSC
Differential Scanning Calorimeter
DSD
Dangerous Substances Directive
DYNO
Dynamometer
EAPCCT
European Association of Poison Centres and Clinical Toxicologists
EC
European Commission
ECA
Emission Control Areas
ECB
European Chemicals Bureau (also called ISPRA)
ECCC
Electronically Controlled Converter Clutch
ECETOC
European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals
ECHA
European Chemicals Agency
ED10
Effective Dose effective for 10% of the population
EEB
European Environmental Bureau also BEE
EEDI
Energy Efficiency Design Index
EELQMS
European Engine Lubricants Quality Management System
EEV
Enhanced Environmentally Friendly Vehicles and Engines
EFI
Electronic Fuel Injection
EFOA
European Fuel Oxygenates Association
EGR
Exhaust Gas Recirculation
EHD
Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication
EHS
Environmentally Hazardous Substances
EI
Energy Institute – merger between the Institute of Petroleum (IP) and the Institute of Energy (InstE)
EINECS
European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances
EKS
Electronic Knock Sensor
ELGI
European Lubricating Grease Institute
ELINCS
European List of Notified Chemical Substances
EMA
Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association
EMD
ElectroMotive Diesel
EOFT
Engine Oil Filterability Test
EOLCS
Engine Oil Licensing and Certification System (of API)
EOVC
Engine Oil Viscosity Classification
EP
Extreme Pressure
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency (USA)
EPEFE
European Programme on Emissions, Fuels & Engine Technologies
ERC
European Registration Centre (of ATC)
ERRMA
European Renewable Raw Materials Association<
ERTRAC
European Road Transport Research Advisory Council
ESI
Engine Service Interval
ESR
Existing Substances Regulation
ETC
European Transient Test Cycle
ETD
Energy Taxation Directive
ETS
Emissions Trading System (EU)
EU
European Union
EUCAR
European Council for Automotive R&D
EUDC
Extra-Urban driving cycle
EUI
Electronic Unit Injector
EUROPIA
European Petroleum Industry Association
EVA
Ethyl Vinyl Acetate
FAME
Fatty Acid Methyl Ester
FAP
Filtre a Particules (see DPF)
FAU
First Allowable Use
FBC
Fuel Borne Catalyst
FBP
Final Boiling Point
FDA
Food & Drug Administration (USA)
FE
Fuel Economy
FEI
Fuel Economy Improvement
FIE
Fuel Injection Equipment
FQD
Fuel Quality Directive
FTC
Federal Trade Commission (USA)
FTIR
Fourier Transform Infrared (spectroscopy)
FTP
Federal Test Procedure (USA)
Functional leadership
Professional with broad knowledge and skills, who may also have had cross functional experience, and now aspires to lead teams in their area of expertise
FVA
Fumarate Vinyl Acetate
FWD
Front Wheel Drive
FZG
Forschungsstelle für Zahnräder und Getriebebau: Technische Hochschule München (D) (Wear Rig)
GAARN
Group Assessing Already Registered Nanomaterials
GADSL
Global Automotive Declarable Substance List
GC
Gas Chromatography
GCD
Gas Chromatographic Simulated Distillation
GDI
Gasoline (engine) Direct Injection
GEO
Gas Engine Oil
GER
Global Emerging Regulations
GES
Global Exposure Scenarios
GF-
ILSAC Specification
GFC
Groupement Français de Coordination
GHG
Greenhouse Gas
GHS
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
GMOD
General Motors Oxidation and Deposits test
GO
Gear Oil
GRPE
Groupe des Rapporteurs pour la Pollution et l’Energie
GTL
Gas to Liquids
HC
Hydrocarbons
HCCI
Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition
HCFC
Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
HD
Heavy-Duty (vehicle or lubricant)
HDD
Heavy-Duty Diesel
HDDEO
Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Oil
HDS
Hydrogenated Styrene Diene
HEUI
Hydraulically Actuated Electronically Controlled Unit Injectors
HEV
Hybrid Electric Vehicles
HFC
Hydrofluorocarbon
HFFI
Heavy Fuel Flow Improver
HFO
Heavy Fuel Oil
HFRR
High Frequency Reciprocating Rig
HGO
Heating Gas Oil
HP
Horsepower
HSD
Hydrogenated Styrene Diene
HSDI
High Speed Direct Injection (diesel engine)
HSE
Health, Safety, Environment
HSE (UK)
Health and Safety Executive
HTHS
High Temperature High Shear
I/M
Inspection and Maintenance
IBP
Initial Boiling Point
ICCA
International Council of Chemical Associations
ICE
Internal Combustion Engine
IChemE
Institution of Chemical Engineers
ICOMIA
International Council of Marine Industry Associations
