Conversion Help Required

[sparrow]

Hi I require some helpful advice and perhaps an example of the formula, for taking British Thermal Units, and then somehow converting them into Kilo Jules.

I hope that is enough information thanx in advance

Sparrow.

[sparrow]

Ok I think this is quite difficult, i have found this out for myself thus far.
1x ton = 12000 btu/h = 200btu/min =3517w

The above is approximately the power to cool 1 short ton of water. This is done at 1deg f every ten minutes.
This is the less common usage of power required to cool 1 long ton of water,by 1 deg fevery ten minutes
=13440 btu/h = 3939w

Do i have to convert to watts first? then find kilo joules? can anyone help?

[Lowrider]

1 kWh equals 3,6 MJ

So that's: 1 kiloWatthour equals 3,600,000 Joules

1 BTU equals 0,29307121 W

[The Viking]

Can't find the actual formula at the moment but THIS is a nifty piece of software that will convert it for you.

[Josip]

Hi, Sparrow

Hi I require some helpful advice and perhaps an example of the formula, for taking British Thermal Units, and then somehow converting them into Kilo Jules.

I hope that is enough information thanx in advance

Sparrow.

try this http://www.onlineconversion.com/power.htm

or download this

http://www.shareup.com/downloading-9152.html

or this..one, the very best for me (converts many units and has a very good calculator within) try...

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/calc/sicon77b.zip

Best regards, Josip

[sparrow]

Thanks for your help everyone, I have written two pages on the conversion of BTU/H to Watt and KJ I think the answers my tutor is looking for must be in there somewhere,lol

[The Viking]

Aha,

You were cheating for a test!

And here we thought that we were giving a fellow engineer advice on a practical problem....

We should have guessed.


(Good luck with your tutor, hopefully he's not on this list)