Convert Acre-feet per hour to US barrels per second
Convert Acre-feet per hour (ac-ft/h) to US barrels per second (bbl/s) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
bbl/s = ac-ft/h × 2.155102041
About Acre-feet per hour
The acre-foot per hour (ac-ft/h) equals 1233.48183754752/3600 ≈ 0.34263 m³/s, standard for sizing irrigation district delivery canals, reservoir outflow scheduling, and aquifer recharge basin calculations in the western US. The US Bureau of Reclamation uses ac-ft/h for canal operational planning; a 1 000-acre farm irrigating with 0.5 in/h rain-equivalent receives ≈41 ac-ft/h. 1 ac-ft/h ≈ 0.34263 m³/s.
About US barrels per second
The US barrel per second (bbl/s) equals 0.158987294928 m³/s, an extremely large flow rate used only for catastrophic spill-rate estimates and very large pipeline surge calculations. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill peaked at ≈60 000 bbl/d ≈ 0.000694 bbl/s; major subsea pipeline ruptures may briefly exceed 1 bbl/s during decompression. 1 US bbl/s = 0.158987 m³/s ≈ 158.987 L/s.
Quick Reference Table
| Acre-feet per hour (ac-ft/h) | US barrels per second (bbl/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 ac-ft/h | 2.1551 bbl/s |
| 2 ac-ft/h | 4.3102 bbl/s |
| 5 ac-ft/h | 10.7755 bbl/s |
| 10 ac-ft/h | 21.551 bbl/s |
| 25 ac-ft/h | 53.8776 bbl/s |
| 50 ac-ft/h | 107.755 bbl/s |
| 100 ac-ft/h | 215.51 bbl/s |