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MM lb

MM lb

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MM lb/yr production rate?? - Sounds like a unit that I have not come across before. Is it true that 1 MM lb = 1,000,000 lbs.?

RE: MM lb

Roman numeral M = 1000.  MM is way yo signify one-thousand 1000s... or one million.  It's not a uniformly used term, but I see it in the waterworks world too.

Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants
www.tankindustry.com

RE: MM lb

The heat transfer arena consistently uses MMBTUH for millions of BTUs per hour.

Larry

RE: MM lb

I have seen MM used in gas volumes.

RE: MM lb

This is a US Customary Unit.

RE: MM lb

I've seen the MM my entire career. It's a normal for expressing a plant capacity or flow rates.

NozzleTwister
Houston, Texas

RE: MM lb

A warning - in different disciplines, I've seen both M and MM used for million.  For example, computer storage is expressed in MB for megabytes, not in MMB for million bytes.

Larry

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