INSTRUMENTATION SYMBOLS

Types of Instrumentation Symbols Process Line Symbols

-Instrument Symbols Used to represent process lines and
instrument connections.
-Line Symbols
Process piping is generally
-Valves and Actuators
shown with thick solid lines.
Instrument Symbols
Thin solid lines indicate
• Symbols such as circles, lines, instrument-to-process
letters, and numbers are used connections or instrument
to provide information about tubing.
the process.
Signal Line Symbols
• Symbols may represent devices
Signal line symbols indicate the
in the system or indicate how
type of signal that connects
devices are connected to
two instruments.
each other.
Valve and Actuator Symbols
• In this notation, shapes denote
function while the lines in the Indicates the action of
middle denote location or actuation in a valve-actuator
mounting instrument.
Line Symbols Also indicates the position
during fail mode.
• Line symbols indicate how
instruments are connected to Valve are usually drawn as a
each other and to the process bow tie shaped symbol.
and represents the types of
signals transmmited in the
process. TAG NUMBERS
• Line Symbols could either be a
process line symbol or a signal
line symbol.

Instrumentation Identification
Number or Tag Number is an
alphanumeric code that provides
specific information about an
instrument or its function.

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 Contains two information • The succeeding letters
designate one or more
- Functional Identification
readout or passive
- Loop Identification functions and/or output
functions.
Loop Identification
Functional Identifier
• Loop identification
• A functional Identifier is
numbers indicate the
a series of letters, or
loop/system in which an
letter code, that
instrument belongs.
identifies the function of
the instrument.
• The first letter identifies
the measured or
initiating variable.

JKLJ
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