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Essential Conversion Factors Guide

This document provides conversion factors for various units of measurement related to length, mass, energy, force, pressure, temperature, density, and other physical quantities. It lists equivalencies between units like inches and centimeters, pounds and kilograms, British thermal units and joules, atmospheres and pounds per square foot, Fahrenheit and Celsius, and others. The conversions allow quantities expressed in one system of units to be easily converted to another system.

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Essential Conversion Factors Guide

This document provides conversion factors for various units of measurement related to length, mass, energy, force, pressure, temperature, density, and other physical quantities. It lists equivalencies between units like inches and centimeters, pounds and kilograms, British thermal units and joules, atmospheres and pounds per square foot, Fahrenheit and Celsius, and others. The conversions allow quantities expressed in one system of units to be easily converted to another system.

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A P P EN D IX 2

CONVERSION FACTORS

Length Energy
1 m = 39.37 inch = 10^ |xm 1 J = 1 W.s = 1 kg m^/s
= IQio A° = 1 N.m3
1 inch = 2.54 cm = 10^ [Link] = 10^ erg
1 ft = 30.48 cm = 0.3048 m 1 Btu = 778 [Link] = 252 cal
1 mile = 5280 ft = 1760 yds = 1055 J = 10.41 [Link]
= 1609.344 m 1 [Link] = 2545 Btu
1 [Link] = 3412 Btu
Mass = 1.341 [Link]
1 Ibm = 453.6 gr = 0.4536 kg
= 7000 grain Power
1 kg = 1000 gr = 2.2046 Ibm 1 HP = 550 [Link]/s
1 slug = 1 Ibf s2/ft = 32.174 Ibm = 33000 ft. Ibf/min
1 US ton = 2000 Ibm (also called = 746 W = 0.746 kW
short ton)
1 long ton — 2240 Ibm (also called Gas Constant
British ton) R = 1.9859 Btu/lbmole °R
1 tonne — 1000 kg (also called = 1.9859cal/grmole.°K
metric ton) = 0.73024 atm ft3/lbmole.°R
= 1545.3 [Link]/lbmole.°R
Force = 10.732 psia.ft3/lbmole.°R
1 Ibf = 4.448 N = 4.448 x = 0.082057 ht. atm/grmole.°K
10^ dynes = 32.174 poundals = 82.057 atm. Cm^/ grmole.°K
= 32.174 [Link]/s2 = 8314.5 Pa.m3/kgmole.°K
= 1 Ibw or J/kg mole.°K
= 8.3145 kJ/kgmole.°K

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578 Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and Processing

Pressure Dynamic Viscosity


1 atm = 14.696 psia 1 cp = 0.01 Poise = 0.01 g/cm s
= 21161bf/ft2 = 0.01 ([Link]^
= 29.92 in Hg = 760 mm = 0.001 kg/m.s = 0.001 Pa.s
Hg = 760 Torn = 0.001 N.s/m2
= 1.013 bar = 2.42 lbm/[Link] = 0.0752 slug/[Link]
= 3 3 . 9 f t H 2 0 = 1.013 X = 6.72 xlO-'^lbm/ft.s
10^ Pa = 2.09 X 10-5 Ibf.s/ft^
= 101.3 kPa 1 Pa.s = 0.0209 lbf.s/ft2
Pa = 1 N/m2 = 10-5 bars = 0.672 lbm/ft.s

Volume Kinematic Viscosity


1 ft^ = 7.4805 U.S. gal 1 St = 1 cm^/s = 0.0001 m2/s
= 6.23 Imperial gal 1 ft^/s = 929 St = 0.0929 m^/s
= 28.317 lit
1 m^ = 1000 lit = 264.2 U.S. gal Force-mass conversion factor
= 35.31 ft^ gc = 1 kg.m/s^.N
1 bbl = 42 U.S. gal (oil) = 1 g cm/s^.dyne
= 5.615 ft^ = 32.174 [Link]/s2.1bf
1 lit = 1000 CO = 1 [Link]/s^.lbf

Density Acceleration due to gravity


Water = 62.43 Ibm/ft^ g = 32.2 ft/s2
= 1000 kg/m^ = 9.81 m/s^ = 981 cm/s^
= 1 g/cm? (varies very slightly with longitude
= 8.346 Ibm/US gal and elevation)
mercury =13.6 g/cm^

Temperature
° F = 1 . 8 ( ° C ) + 32
°R = °F + 459.67
= 1.8 (°K)

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