API MPM CH15 : 2001(R2015)
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MANUAL OF PETROLEUM MEASUREMENT STANDARDS - CHAPTER 15: GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (SI) IN THE PETROLEUM AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES
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19-06-2019
English
01-01-2015
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15.0 INTRODUCTION
15.1 SCOPE AND FIELD OF APPLICATION
15.2 REFERENCES
15.3 THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (SI)
15.3.1 General
15.3.2 SI Base Units
15.3.3 SI Supplementary Units
15.3.4 Derived Units
15.3.5 Other Allowable Units
15.3.6 Decimal Multiples and Submultiples of SI Unit
15.3.7 Use of Letter Symbols
15.4 USE OF CONVERSION TABLES IN SECTION 15.5
15.4.1 Categories
15.4.2 Corrections
15.4.3 Preferred Units
15.4.4 Equivalent Units
15.4.5 Notation
15.4.6 Significant Digits
15.4.7 Horsepower, Calorie & BTU
15.4.8 Reference Conditions
15.4.9 Amount of Substance
15.4.10 Density
15.4.11 Attachments to Units
15.4.12 Exceptions
15.4.13 Nomenclature
15.5 TABLES OF RECOMMENDED SI UNITS AND CONVERSION FACTORS
15.6 EXAMPLES
15.7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
APPENDIX A - METRIC CONVERSION OF LIQUIDS
APPENDIX B - METRIC CONVERSION OF NATURAL GAS
APPENDIX C - BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX D - ORGANIZATION NAMES, ABBREVIATIONS,
AND FUNCTIONS
Encourages and facilitate uniformity of metric practice within the petroleum industry.
| DevelopmentNote |
Supersedes API 2564. (02/2002)
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
56
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| ProductNote |
Reconfirmed 2015
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| PublisherName |
American Petroleum Institute
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| Status |
Superseded
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| Supersedes |
| ASTM E 380 : 1993 | Standard Practice for Use of the Internation System of Units (SI) (the Modernized Metric System) (Withdrawn 1997) |
| IEEE 260-1978 | IEEE Standard Letter Symbols for Units of Measurement (SI Units, Customary Inch-Pound Units, and Certain Other Units) |
| CSA Z234.1 : 0 | METRIC PRACTICE GUIDE |
| ISO 2955:1983 | Information processing — Representation of SI and other units in systems with limited character sets |
| IEEE/ASTM SI_10-2010 | American National Standard for Metric Practice |
| ANSI Z210.1 : LATEST | METRIC PRACTICE GUIDE |
| IEEE 268-1992 | American National Standard for Metric Practice |
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