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)
