KSB Centrifugal Pump Lexicon –

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Standardised pump

Standardised pumps are pumps which comply with the requirements, guidelines, directives or recommendations issued by a standards institute, or a manufacturers' or users' association

Abbreviations of national, European and international standards institutes: 

  • ACS: American Chemical Society; standardised: American Voluntary Standard (AVS) pump
  • AFNOR: Association Française de Normalisation (French standards' institute)
  • ANSI: American National Standard Institute
  • API: American Petroleum Institute
  • ASME: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • BPMA: British Pump Manufacturers' Association
  • BSI: British Standards Institution
  • Codata Committee on Data for Science and Technology (see Standard temperature and pressure)
  • DIN: Deutsches Institut für Normung (German standards' institute)
  • DVGW: Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas- und Wasserfaches e.V. (German association for gas and water)
  • EN: European Standard (CEN Comité Européen de Normalisation)
  • ISO: International Organization for Standardization
  • VDE DKE: Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik in DIN und VDE (German commission for electrical, electronic and information technologies)
  • VDI: Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (German association of engineers)
  • VDMA: Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (German engineering association)
  • VdS: Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V. – GDV (German association of insurance companies)
  • UNI: Unificazione Italiana (Italian standards' institute)

 

  

  

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