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Valves Abbrevation

Abbreviations List:

AISI = American Iron and Steel Institute

AL = Aluminium

ANSI = American National Standard Institute

API = American Petroleum Institute

ASME = American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASTM = American Society for Testing Materials

AWS = American Welding Society

AWWA = American Water Works Association

BB = Bolted Bonnet

BC = Bolted Cap or Bolted Cover

BR = Bronze

BS = British Standard

BSPP = British Standard Pipe Thread,Parallel

BSPT = British Standard Pipe Thread,Taper

BUNA = Nitrile Rubber

BW = Butt Welding Ends

CFM = Cubic Feet per Minute

CI = Cast Iron

CR = Chloroprene or Neoprene

CS = Carbon Steel

CWP = Cold Working Pressure

DIN = Deutschen Industrie Norm

DN = Diameter Nominal

EPDM = Ethylene Popylene Diene Monomer

EPT = Ethylene-Propylene Ter Polymer

FE = Flanged Ends

FEP = Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene

FF = Flat Face

Fig.No. = Figure Number

FLG = Flanged

FNPT = Female National Pipe Taper

FPM = Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene

FS = Forged Steel

GPM = Gallons per Minute

GR = Grade

HF = (Hard Face)Stellite Face

IBBM = Iron Body Bronze Mounted

IN = Inch

IPM = Inches per Minute

ISRS = Inside Screw Rising Stem

Max. = Maximum

MI = Malleable Iron

Min = Minimum

MSS = Manufacturers Standardization Society

NACE = National Association of Corrosion Engineers

NBR = Nitrile or Buna N Rubber

NC = Normally Closed

NDT = Non Destructive Testing

Nod.CI = Nodular Cast Iron

NPS = Nominal Pipe Size

NPT = National Pipe Thread

NRS = Non Rising Stem

NYL = Nylon

OD = Outside Diameter

OS&Y = Outside Screw and Yoke

PCD = Pitch Circle Diameter

PE = Polyethylene

PMI = Positive Material Identification

PP = Polypropylene

PSI = Pounds Per Square Inch

PSIA = Pounds Per Square Inch Absolute

PSIG = Pounds per Square Inch Gauge

PTFE = Poly Tetra Fluoro ethylene

PVC = Polyvinyl Chloride

RF = Raised Face

Rilsan = Super Polyamide

RPM = Revolution per Minute

RS = Rising Stem

RTJ = Ring Type Joint

SAE = Society of Automotive Engineers

SB = Screw Bonnet

Scr = Screwed

SE = Screwed ends

SJ = Scolder Ends

SS = Stainless Steel

STL = Stellite

SW = Socket Welding Ends

TFE = Tetra Fluoro Ethylene

VITON = Fluorinated Elastomer

WB = Welded Bonnet

WOG = Water, OIL, Gas

WP = Working Pressure

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