| Acronym | Meaning |
| MBBR | Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor |
| POC | Point Of Compliance |
| TOC | Total Organic Carbon |
| PGNAA | Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis |
| TIRFCS | Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy |
| MITE | Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Element |
| SIDLTS | Scanning Ion Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy |
| SURE | Sulfate Regional Experiment |
| CT | Disinfection Concentration Contact Time |
| APDI | Anisotropic Point-dipole Interaction (model For Calcg. Long-range Intermol. Dispersion Forces) |