ENGINEERING UNITS CONVERTOR - READ ME

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This spreadsheet provides conversions for commonly used engineering units.
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UNIT CONVERSION
Input 37.8 am3/s 37.8 am3/s
Output 3.27 Mm3/d 3.26592 Mm3/d
Unit Type Input unit
Output unit
Selection
Selected Type ID 32
Selected Type Lookup Ref unitVolRateAct
Two param equation? FALSE
Input unit ID 1
Input unit ID (min applied) 1
Output unit ID 3
Output unit ID (min applied) 3
Long NameLookup Name
AccelerationunitAcceleration
Area - largeunitAreaLarge
Area - small unitAreaSmall
CGR unitCGR
Density unitDensity
Energy unitEnergy
Energy rateunitEnergyRate
Force unitForce
GLR unitGLR
GOR unitGOR
Heat capacity unitHeatCapacity
Heating value - mass unitHeatingValMass
Heating value - volume unitHeatingValVol
Heat transfer coefficient unitHeatTransfCoeff
Length unitLength
LGR unitLGR
Mass unitMass
Mass rate unitMassRate
Power unitPower
Pressure unitPressure
Pressure delta unitPressureDelta
Specific heat capacity unitSpecHeatCap
Surface tension unitSurfTension
Temperature unitTemperature
Thermal conductivity unitThermalConductivity
Time - largeunitTimeLarge
Time - small unitTimeSmall
Velocity unitVelocity
Viscosity - dynamic unitViscosityDyn
Viscosity - kinematic unitViscosityKin
Volume rateunitVolRate
Volume rate - actual unitVolRateAct
Volume rate - liquid unitVolRateLiq
Volume unitVolume
CONSTANTS & UNIT LOOKUP TABLES
DETAILS
Andrew Hooks www.firstprincipleseng.net
11/15/2007
Version 1
PREFIXES
Metric
Prefix long form value
m milli 0.001
c centi 0.01
k thousand 1000
M million/mega 1E+06
B billion 1E+09
T tera 1E+12
P peta 1E+15
Imperial
Prefix long form value
M thousand 1000
MM million 1E+06
BASIC CONSTANTS
Gas constant, R 8.31451 kPa.m
3
/(kmol.K)
Grav. accel. 9.80665 m/s
2
MW (air) 28.964 kg/kmol
Standard T, P
2
Std Pressure 101.325 kPa
Std Temperature 288.15 K
Molar Volume 23.645 m
3
/kgmol
Common definitions for Standard T, P
Temp Abs Pres Molar Vol
K kPa m
3
/kgmol
0
o
C, 1atm 273.15 101.325 22.414 (273.15K = 0'C = 32'F; 101.325kPa = 1atm = 14.696psia)
15
o
C, 1atm 288.15 101.325 23.645 (288.15K = 15'C = 59'F)
60
o
F, 1atm 288.71 101.325 23.691 (288.71K = 60'F = 15.56'C)
0
o
C, 100kPa 273.15 100 22.711
15
o
C, 100kPa 288.15 100 23.958
60
o
F, 14.73psia 288.71 101.560 23.636 (100.232kPa = 14.73psia)
UNITS
Example
Click the unit cell then select required unit from the dropdown list
that appears
Length 10 in
0.254 m
0.000 mile
Temperature 15 'C
288.15 K
15 'C
Length
Base conversions
inches/foot 12 in/ft
feet/metre 3.281 ft/m
feet/mile 5280 ft/mi
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
mm = 0.001 m
cm = 0.01 m
m = 1 m
km = 1000 m
in = 0.0254 m
ft = 0.3048 m
mile = 1609.3 m
Area_small
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
mm
2
= 0.000001 m
2
in
2
= 0.000645 m
2
m
2
= 1 m
2
ft
2
= 0.0929 m
2
Area_large
Base conversions
hectare/km2 100 hct/km2 1 hectare is 100m x 100m
ft2/acre 43559.66 ft2/acre
Lookup table
Unit Metric Unit
km
2
= 1 km
2
mi
2
= 0.6214 km
2
hectare = 0.01 km
2
acre = 0.0040468 km
2
Volume
Base conversions
barrels/cubic meter 6.283 bbl/m
3
in
3
/US gallon 231 in
3
/gallon
Litres/Imperial(UK) gallon 4.54609 L/gallon(UK)
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
mL = 0.000001 m
3
cm
3
= 0.000001 m
3
L = 0.001 m
3
m
3
= 1 m
3
in
3
= 1.639E-05 m
3
ft
3
= 0.0283 m
3
(35.31 ft3/m3)
bbl = 0.1592 m
3
gallon (US) = 0.00379 m
3
(264.2 gallon/m3)
gallon (UK) = 0.00455 m
3
(220 gallon/m3)
Mass
Base conversions
pounds/kilogram 2.20462 lbl/kg
pound/ton (short) 2000 lbl/tn
pound/ton (long) 2240 lbl/ton
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
mg = 0.000001 kg
g = 0.001 kg
kg = 1 kg
tonne (metric) = 1000 kg
lbl = 0.454 kg
ton (short) = 907.2 kg
ton (long) = 1016.0 kg
Force
Base conversions
Force = mass * acceleration
Dyn 1.00E-05 N
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
N = 1 N
mN = 0.001 N
kg(f) = 9.80665 N 1kg * gravitational acceleration
lbl(f) = 4.44823 N
Dyn = 0.00001 N
Pressure
Base conversions
Pressure is force per unit area
Pa = N/m
2
= kg.(m/s
2
)/m
2
= kg/(m.s
2
)
kPa/Atmosphere 101.325 kPa(A)/atm(A) Atmospheric pressure at sealevel in kPa
kPa/bar 100 kPa/bar
bara/Atmosphere 1.01325 bara/atm The atmospheric pressure in bar at sealevel is 1.01325 bar
barg/Atmosphere 0 barg/atm
psia/Atmosphere 14.696 psia/atm(A) The atmospheric pressure in psi at sealevel is 14.696 psi
psi/bar 14.504 psi/bar
Lookup table
!!! Order is important - multiply first then add the constant !!!
Unit Multiplier Constant SI unit
Pa(A) 0.001 0 kPa(A)
kPa(A) 1 0 kPa(A)
kPa(G) 1 101.325 kPa(A)
MPa(A) 1000 0 kPa(A)
MPa(G) 1000 101.325 kPa(A)
bara 100 0 kPa(A)
barg 100 101.325 kPa(A)
psia 6.895 0 kPa(A)
psig 6.895 101.325 kPa(A)
atm(A) 101.325 0 kPa(A)
atm(G) 101.325 101.325 kPa(A)
kg/cm
2
(A) 98.0665 0 kPa(A) [kg/cm2 * (100cm/m)
2
] * (grav accel) = N/m
2
= kg * (grav accel) /m
2
Pressure difference
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
Pa = 0.001 kPa
kPa = 1 kPa
mbar = 0.100 kPa
bar = 100 kPa
psi = 14.504 kPa
atm = 101.325 kPa
kg/cm
2
= 98.0665 kPa
mH2O = 9.80665 kPa
Temperature
Base conversions
Constant
Deg Celcius / Kelvin 273.15
o
C/K
Fahrenheit 459.67 Rankine
Rankine/Kelvin 1.8 0 R/K
Lookup table
!!! Order is important - multiply first then add the constant !!!
Unit Multiplier Constant SI unit
'C 1 273.15 K
K 1 0 K
'F 0.556 255 K
R 0.556 0 K
Time_small
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
ms = 0.001 s
s = 1 s
min = 60 s
hour = 3600 s
X barg = X barg + atm P = Y bara; eg. 1barg + 1.013 = 2.013bara
1 bar = 100kPa
X bara = (X - 1.013)barg * 100kPa/bar + 101.3kPa/atm = X*100kPa(A)

Converting to psia first would give the same result, ie.the following are equivalent:
[X psig + (14.5*1.013
or
X psig * (100/14.5
day = 86400 s
Time_large
Lookup table
Unit "SI Unit"
hour = 0.0417 day
day = 1 day
month = 30.4 day
year = 365.25 day
Volume rate - Gas (standard conditions)
Lookup table
Select standard T, P from the in-cell drop down list
Unit Std T, P Multiplier "SI Unit"
sm
3
/s 15oC, 1atm 1 sm
3
/s
Nm
3
/h 0oC, 100kPa 0.000267 sm
3
/s
Mm
3
/d 15oC, 1atm 11.574 sm
3
/s
Mscf/d 60oF, 1atm 0.000328 sm
3
/s
MMscf/d 60oF, 1atm 0.328 sm
3
/s
Bscf/y 60oF, 1atm 0.900 sm
3
/s
kgmol/h 0.00657 sm
3
/s
lbmol/h 0.00298 sm
3
/s
Volume rate - Gas (actual conditions)
Lookup table
Unit "SI Unit"
am
3
/s = 1 am
3
/s
am
3
/h = 0.000278 am
3
/s
Mm
3
/d = 11.574 am
3
/s
Mcf/d = 0.000328 am
3
/s
MMcf/d = 0.328 am
3
/s
Volume rate - Liquid
Lookup table
Unit "SI Unit"
L/s = 1000 m
3
/s
L/min = 16.67 m
3
/s
L/h = 0.278 m
3
/s
L/d = 0.01157 m
3
/s
m
3
/s = 1 m
3
/s
m
3
/h = 0.002738 m
3
/s
m
3
/d = 1.1574E-05 m
3
/s
bbl/d = 1.842E-06 m
3
/s
k.bbl/d = 0.00184213 m
3
/s
gph (US) = 1.0515E-06 m
3
/s gallons/hour
gpd (US) = 4.3813E-08 m
3
/s
gph (UK) = 1.2628E-06 m
3
/s
gpd (UK) = 5.2617E-08 m
3
/s
Liquid - Gas Ratio
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
m
3
/Mm
3
= 1 m
3
/Mm
3
bbl/MMscf = 5.6207 m
3
/Mm
3
Gas - Liquid Ratio
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
m
3
/m
3
= 1 m
3
/m
3
scf/bbl = 0.178 m
3
/m
3
Mass rate
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
kg/s = 1 kg/s
kg/h = 0.000278 kg/s
t/d = 0.011574 kg/s
t/y = 3.17E-05 kg/s
lbl/s = 0.454 kg/s
lbl/h = 5.25E-06 kg/s
Velocity
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
m/s = 1 m/s
km/h = 0.278 m/s
ft/s = 0.3048 m/s
mi/h = 0.4470 m/s
Acceleration
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
mm/s
2
= 0.001 m/s
2
m/s
2
= 1 m/s
2
km/s
2
= 1000 m/s
2
in/s
2
= 0.025 m/s
2
ft/s
2
= 0.305 m/s
2
mi/(h.s) = 0.447 m/s
2
mi/s
2
= 1609 m/s
2
Density
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
g/cm
3
= 1.00E-09 kg/m
3
kg/m
3
= 1 kg/m
3
lbl/ft
3
= 16.018 kg/m
3
Energy
Base conversions
Joules/(kgm
2
/s
2
) 1 J/(kgm
2
/s
2
)
Joules/Calorie 4.1868 J/Cal
Joules/BTU 1055.056 J/BTU
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
J = 0.001 kJ
kJ = 1 kJ
Cal = 0.0041868 kJ
kCal = 4.1868 kJ
BTU = 1.055056 kJ
Energy rate
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
TJ/d = 1 TJ/d
PJ/y = 1000 TJ/d
Power
Base conversions
(BTU/h) / kW 3412.1 (BTU/h)/kW
Lookup table
Unit SI unit
W = 0.001 kW
kW = 1 kW
MW = 1000 kW
Hp = 0.746 kW
BTU/h = 0.00029 kW
Heating value (volume basis)
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
MJ/m
3
= 1 MJ/m
3
MJ/kgmol = 0.042292 MJ/m
3
MJ/scf = 35.315 MJ/m
3
BTU/m
3
= 0.001055 MJ/m
3
BTU/scf = 0.037259 MJ/m
3
BTU/lbmol = 0.000098 MJ/m
3
kcal/lbmol = 0.000390 MJ/m
3
Heating value (mass basis)
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
MJ/kg = 1 MJ/kg
BTU/kg = 0.00106 MJ/kg
BTU/lb = 0.00233 MJ/kg
kcal/lb = 0.00923 MJ/kg
kcal/kg = 0.00419 MJ/kg
Heat capacity
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
J/K = 1 J/K
BTU/'F = 1899 J/K
cal/'C = 4.187 J/K
Specific heat capacity
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
J/(kg.K) = 1 J/(kg.K)
J/(g.K) = 1000 J/(kg.K)
BTU/(lb'F) = 4187 J/(kg.K)
cal/(g'C) = 4187 J/(kg.K)
Thermal conductivity
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
W/(m.K) = 1 W/(m.K)
BTU/(h.ft'F) = 1.731 W/(m.K)
BTU.in/(h.ft
2
'F) = 0.144 W/(m.K)
cal/(sm'C) = 4.187 W/(m.K)
Heat transfer coefficient
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
W/(m
2
K) = 1 W/(m
2
K)
BTU/(h.ft
2
'F) = 5.678 W/(m
2
K)
cal/(s.cm
2
K) = 4.19E-04 W/(m
2
K)
kcal/(h.m
2
K) = 1.163 W/(m
2
K)
Dynamic (Absolute) Viscosity
Base conversions
Pa.s = 1 kg/m/s
Poise = 1 g/cm/s (Water has viscosity of ca. 1cP at 20'C (1.002))
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
cP = 0.001 Pa.s
Poise = 0.1 Pa.s
Pa.s = 1 Pa.s
Kinematic Viscosity Kinematic viscosity = Dynamic viscosity / Density for a Newtonian fluid
Base conversions
Stoke = 1 cm
2
/s
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
m
2
/s = 1 m
2
/s
St = 0.0001 m
2
/s
cSt = 0.000001 m
2
/s
Surface tension
Lookup table
Unit "SI unit"
T = 1 N/m
N/m = 1 N/m
mN/m = 0.001 N/m
lbl(f)/in = 175.13 N/m
dyn/cm = 0.001 N/m
(273.15K = 0'C = 32'F; 101.325kPa = 1atm = 14.696psia)
(288.15K = 15'C = 59'F)
(288.71K = 60'F = 15.56'C)
(100.232kPa = 14.73psia)
1 hectare is 100m x 100m
(264.2 gallon/m3)
(220 gallon/m3)
1kg * gravitational acceleration
Atmospheric pressure at sealevel in kPa
The atmospheric pressure in bar at sealevel is 1.01325 bar
The atmospheric pressure in psi at sealevel is 14.696 psi
[kg/cm2 * (100cm/m)
2
] * (grav accel) = N/m
2
= kg * (grav accel) /m
2
X barg = X barg + atm P = Y bara; eg. 1barg + 1.013 = 2.013bara
1 bar = 100kPa --> X barg = [100*(X barg + 1.013bar/atm)] kPa(A), or = [100*X + 101.325] kPa(A)
1.013)barg * 100kPa/bar + 101.3kPa/atm = X*100kPa(A)
Converting to psia first would give the same result, ie.the following are equivalent:
[X psig + (14.5*1.013=14.7)] psia * (1kPa / 14.5psi) = kPa(A)
X psig * (100/14.5=6.895) kPa(G) + 101.3 kPa/atm = kPa(A)
(Water has viscosity of ca. 1cP at 20'C (1.002))
Kinematic viscosity = Dynamic viscosity / Density for a Newtonian fluid