PROCESS TERMINOLOGY, ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY

A/D
ANSI
API
ASME
ASTM
ATM
BETX
BMS
BoD
BOD
BPD
BSI
BTU
C&I
CAD
CAE
CE
C&E
CEM
CMMS
COD
CPD
CSE
DBB
DCS
DIN
DMT
EHT
EMF
EPA
ESD
FAT
F&G
FO/FC
FS
FTP
GPA
gpm
GUI
HAZID
HAZOP
HACCP
HCl
HeNe
HMI

Analogue/Digital
American National Standards Institution
American Petroleum Institution
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Society for Testing and Materials
Atmosphere
A mixture of benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene and xylenes

Burner Management System

Basis of Design
Biochemical oxygen demand
Barrels per day
British Standard Institution
British thermal unit
Control & Instrumentation
Computer Aided Design
Computer Aided Engineering
Communaut Europenne (Conformity Europe)
Cause & Effect
Continuous Emission Monitoring
Control Maintenance & Management Systems
Chemical Oxygen Demand
Continuing Professional Development
Control Systems Engineer
Double Block and Bleed
Distributed Control System
The German Standards Institute
Dynamic modeling technology
Electric heat tracing
Electromagnetic Flowmeter
Environmental Protection Agency
Emergency Shut Down
Factory Acceptance Test
Fire & Gas
Fail Open/Fail Closed
Failed safe
File Transfer Protocol
Gas Processors Association
Gallons per minute
Graphical User Interface
Hazard Identification Study
Hazard & Operability Study
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
Hydrochloric acid
Helium neon
Human machine inteface (see also MMI)

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HON
HSE
I&C
IDC
I/O
I/P
IA
IChemE
ID
IEE
IEEE
IFA
IFH
IFC
IFD
IGE
IMechE
IP
IR
IS
ISA
kg/d
kHz
LNG
LO/LC
LPG
M
MCC
MM
MMI
MSD
MTO
MW
NACE
NEMA
NERC
NFPA
NGL
NNF
NPSH
O&M
OSHA
P&ID
pa
PCS
PD
PFD
PFD

Horsepower
Hazardous organic national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants
Health and Safety Executive (UK)
Instrumentation & Control
Inter-discipline check
Input/Output
Current to Pressure (Electropneumatic)
Intelligent Actuator (or Actuation)
Institution of Chemical Engineers
Internal Diameter
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Issued for Approval
Issued for HAZOP
Issued for Construction
Intelligent Field Device or Issued for Design
Institution of Gas Engineers
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Institute of Petroleum
Infrared
Intrinsically safe
The Instruments, Systems and Automation Society
kilograms per day
kilohertz
Liquified Natural Gas
Locked Open/Locked Close
Liquified Petroleum Gas
Thousand
Motor control centre
Million
Man machine interface
Material Selection Diagram
Material take-off
Megawatts or Manway
National Association of Corrosion Engineers
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
National Environment Research Council
National Fire Protection Association
Natural Gas Liquids
Normally no flow
Net positive suction head
Operations and Maintenance
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (US)
Piping and instrumentation diagram
Pascal
Process Control System
Proportional-Derivative
Probability of Failure on Demand
Process flow diagram

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PHA
PI
PID
P&ID
PLC
PM
ppb
ppm
PSD
PSFS
PSI
PSIG
PSM
PT
PV
QA
RF
RTD
RTU
SAT
SCADA
SCFH
SIL
SIS
SOP
SP
TEFC
TEG
TL
TOC
TSO
TT
T/T
UC
US
UPS
V
VM
VCM
VOC

Hydrogen Ion Concentration (measure of acidity)

Process hazards analysis
Proportional-Integral
PID Proportional-Integral-Derivative (as in PID controller)
Piping and Instrumentation Diagram
Programmable Logic Controller
Particulate matter or preventive maintenance
Parts per billion
Parts per million
Process shut-down
Process Safeguarding Flow Scheme
Pounds per Square Inch
Pounds per Square Inch, Gauge
Process Safety Management
Pressure transmitter
Process variable
Quality Assurance
Raised Face
Resistance Thermometer Device or detector
Remote terminal or telemetry unit
Site Aceptance Test
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems
Standard cubic feet per hour
Safety Integrity Level
Safety Instrumented System
Standard Operating Procedure
Sampling Point or Special Piping item
Totally enclosed fan cooled (electric motors)
Tri-ethylene Glycol
Tangent line
Total Organic Carbon
Tight shut-off
Temperature transmitter
Tangent to tangent
Utility connection
Ultrasonic
Uninterruptable power supply
Voltage
Vortex Meter
Vibration Conditioning Monitoring
Volatile organic compound