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PURPOSE AND USE OF PROCESS INDUSTRY PRACTICES In an effort to minimize the cost of process industry facilities, this Practice has been prepared from the technical requirements in the existing standards of major industrial users, contractors, or standards organizations. By harmonizing these technical requirements into a single set of Practices, administrative, application, and engineering costs to both the purchaser and the manufacturer should be reduced. While this Practice is expected to incorporate the majority of requirements of most users, individual applications may involve requirements that will be appended to and take precedence over this Practice. Determinations concerning fitness for purpose and particular matters or application of the Practice to particular project or engineering situations should not be made solely on information contained in these materials. The use of trade names from time to time should not be viewed as an expression of preference but rather recognized as normal usage in the trade. Other brands having the same specifications are equally correct and may be substituted for those named. All practices or guidelines are intended to be consistent with applicable laws and regulations including OSHA requirements. To the extent these practices or guidelines should conflict with OSHA or other applicable laws or regulations, such laws or regulations must be followed. Consult an appropriate professional before applying or acting on any material contained in or suggested by the Practice.

Process Industry Practices (PIP), Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 3208 Red River Street, Suite 300, Austin, Texas 78705. PIP member companies may copy this practice for their internal use.

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PIP PNG00002 Abbreviated Piping Terms and Acronyms

Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................... 2
1.1 Purpose .............................................2 1.2 Scope ................................................2

2. General....................................... 2 3. Abbreviated Piping Terms and Acronyms ........................... 3

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Introduction
1.1 Purpose The purpose of this Practice is to provide a system for identifying abbreviated piping terms and acronyms used in Process Industry Practices (PIP) piping documents. 1.2 Scope This Practice establishes the definitions and interpretations for all piping-related abbreviations and acronyms used in PIP piping documents and drawings. Abbreviations for technical societies, codes, standards, etc. are not included.

2.

General
2.1 Certain abbreviations and interpretations are unique to a particular discipline or context in which they are used. The abbreviations listed in this Practice are considered piping-related and may be used in piping documents and drawings without further definition in those documents or drawings. Abbreviations not listed in this document must be spelled out or defined in the document/drawing in which they are used. Other abbreviations may be defined as described in Section 2.3. When first used in the text of a document/drawing, other terms to be abbreviated shall be spelled out and followed by the abbreviation in parentheses, e.g., arrangement (ARRGT). Thereafter, the abbreviation alone may be used in that document/drawing. To determine the appropriate abbreviation for a piping term or the interpretation of a piping abbreviation used in a PIP piping document, refer to this Practice. In cases where an abbreviation listed in this Practice conflicts with other interpretations or where multiple interpretations exist, the abbreviations and interpretations of this Practice shall apply.

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Abbreviated Piping Terms and Acronyms

Description Abbreviation EA EB EC ECC EFW EL ELL ELLIP EOL EPDM EQ ERW F F-F FBE FCAW FEP FF FFW FIG FIN FLE FLEX FLG FMU FNPT FOB FOE FOF FOT FP FRP FS FSE FT FTG FV FW G GA GALV GBE GE GJ GLE GMAW GO GOE Description

Abbreviation AARH AL ATM AVG B&S BB BBE BC BD BE BF BL BLD BLE BOE BOM BOP BR BSE BTM BW C C-C CA CALC CI CL CM CONC CONN CPLG CPVC CR CS CU CWO CWP DEG D/P DI DIA DIM DIN DN DP DRN DT DWG

Arithmetic Average Roughness Height Aluminum Atmosphere Average Bell & Spigot Bolted Bonnet Bevel Both Ends Bolt Circle Blow Down Beveled End Blind Flange Battery Limit Blind Bevel Large End Bevel One End Bill of Material Bottom of Pipe Bronze Bevel Small End Bottom Butt Weld Centigrade; Celsius Center to Center Corrosion Allowance Calculated Cast Iron Centerline Centimeter Concentric Connection Coupling Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride Chromium Carbon Steel Copper Chain Wheel Operator Cold Working Pressure Degree Differential Pressure Ductile Iron Diameter Dimension Deutsche Indistrie Normen Diameter Nominal (Metric) Design Pressure Drain Design Temperature Drawing

Each Extended Bonnet Eddy Current Testing (Examination) Eccentric Electric Fusion Welded Elevation Elbow Elliptical Elbolet Ethylene-Propylene-Diene Terpolymer / EP Rubber Equal Electric Resistance Welded Fahrenheit Face to Face Flange Both Ends Flux Cored Arc Welding Perfluoro (Ethylene-Propylene) Copolymer Flat Face Field Fit Weld Figure Finish Flange Large End Flexible Flange Fitting Make Up Female National (Taper) Pipe Threads Flat on Bottom Flange One End Face of Flange Flat on Top Full Port Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic Forged Steel Flange Small End Foot; Feet Fitting Full Vacuum Field Weld Gram Gauge Galvanized Groove Both Ends Groove End Ground Joint Groove Large End Gas Metal Arc Welding Gear Operator Groove One End

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Abbreviation GR GRND GRP GSE GSKT GTAW H HAZ HB HD HDPE HDR HEX HF HK HP HPT HR15N HRB HRC HT HV HW IBBM ID IN INS ISBL ISO ISRS ITCS JE KCS KG KPA LDPE LJ LP LPG LPT LR LTE LWN M MxF MAWP MAX MDMT MFG MI

Description

Abbreviation MIN MISC MJ MNPT MO MT MTL MTO MTR N/A NBR NI NIPP NPS NPT NRS NTS OD ORIF OS&Y OSBL P&ID P-T PARA PAW PBE PE PFA PIV PL PLE PO POE POS PP PPB PPM PRESS PS PSE PSI PSIA PSIG PT PTFE PVC PVDC PVDF PWHT RA

Description

Grade Ground(ed) Glass Reinforced Plastic Groove Small End Gasket Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Horizontal Heat Affected Zone Hardness Brinell Scale Head High Density Polyethylene Header Hexagonal Hard Faced Hardness Knoop Scale High Pressure High Point Hardness Rockwell 15N Scale Hardness Rockwell B Scale Hardness Rockwell C Scale Heat Treatment Hardness Vickers Scale Handwheel Iron Body Bronze Mounted Inside Diameter Inch Insulation Inside Battery Limits Isometric Drawing Inside Screw Rising Stem Impact Tested Carbon Steel Joint Efficiency Killed Carbon Steel Kilogram Kilopascals (Pressure = psig x 6.895) Low Density Polyethylene Lap Joint Low Pressure Liquefied Petroleum Gas Low Point Long Radius Long Tangent Elbow Long Welding Neck Meter Male by Female Maximum Allowable Working Pressure Maximum Minimum Design Metal Temperature Manufacturer Malleable Iron

Minimum Miscellaneous Mechanical Joint Male National (Taper) Pipe Threads Molybdenum Magnetic Particle Testing (Examination) Material Material Take Off Material Test Report Not Applicable Nitrile-Butadiene/Nitrile or BunaN Rubber Nickel Nipple Nominal Pipe Size National (Taper) Pipe Thread Non-Rising Stem Not To Scale Outside Diameter Orifice Outside Screw & Yoke Outside Battery Limits Piping and Instrumentation Diagram Pressure Temperature Paragraph Plasma Arc Welding Plain Both Ends Polyethylene; Plain End Perfluoro (Alkoxyalkane) copolymer Post Indicator Valve Plate Plain Large End Pushed On Plain One End Point of Support Polypropylene Parts Per Billion Parts Per Million Pressure Pipe Support Plain Small End Pounds per Square Inch Pounds per Square Inch Absolute Pounds per Square Inch Gauge Liquid Penetrant Testing (Examination) Polytetrafluoroethylene Polyvinyl Chloride Polyvinylidene Chloride Polyvinylidene Fluoride Postweld Heat Treatment Roughness Average (Replaced AARH)

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Abbreviation RAD RAT RED REF REINF REPAD REQD REV RF RJ RP RPO RS RT RTFE RTP RTR SAW SCH SDR SG SI SMAW SMLS SO SOCW SOL SP-WD SPA SPEC SQ SR SS ST STD STL STM SVC SW SWG T&C T&G

Description

Abbreviation T-T T/SW TAN TBE TEMP TFE THK THRD TI TLE TOC TOE TOG TOL TOP TOS TSE TW TYP UB UG UNC UNF UNS UT V V/D VT W/ W/O WB WE WN WOG WOL WP WPS WT WWP XS XXS

Description

Radius Rating Reducer; Reducing Reference Reinforced Reinforcing Pad Required Revision Raised Face Ring Joint Reduced Port Restrained Push On Rising Stem Radiographic Testing (Examination) Reinforced TFE Reinforced Thermosetting Plastic Reinforced Thermoset Resin Submerged Arc Welding Schedule Standard Dimensional Ratio Specific Gravity Silicon Shielded Metal Arc Welding Seamless Slip On Socket Weld (see SW) Sockolet Spiral Wound Spacer Specification Square Short Radius Stainless Steel Seat Standard Steel Steam Service Socket Weld (preferred) Swage Threaded and Coupled Tongue and Groove

Tangent to Tangent Threaded by Socketweld Tangent Thread Both Ends Temperature Tetrafluoroethylene Thick Thread; Threaded Titanium Thread Large End Top of Concrete Thread One End Top of Grout Thredolet Top of Pipe Top of Steel; Top of Support Thread Small End Thermowell Typical Union Bonnet Underground Unified National Coarse Thread Unified National Fine Thread Unified Numbering System Ultrasonic Testing (Examination) Vertical Vents and Drains Visual Testing (Examination) With Without Welded Bonnet Weld End Weld Neck Water, Oil & Gas Weldolet Working Point Weld Procedure Specification Wall Thickness Working Water Pressure Extra Strong Double Extra Strong

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