Convert Acre-feet per minute to US barrels per second
Convert Acre-feet per minute (ac-ft/min) to US barrels per second (bbl/s) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
bbl/s = ac-ft/min × 129.3061224
About Acre-feet per minute
The acre-foot per minute (ac-ft/min) equals 1233.48183754752/60 ≈ 20.558 m³/s, encountered in large irrigation canal capacity descriptions and reservoir emergency spillway sizing in the US West. A major canal gate releasing 1 ac-ft/min drains a 1-acre field 1 foot deep every minute - a substantial agricultural flow. 1 ac-ft/min ≈ 20.558 m³/s ≈ 726.0 ft³/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 minute (ac-ft/min) | US barrels per second (bbl/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 ac-ft/min | 129.306 bbl/s |
| 2 ac-ft/min | 258.612 bbl/s |
| 5 ac-ft/min | 646.531 bbl/s |
| 10 ac-ft/min | 1293.06 bbl/s |
| 25 ac-ft/min | 3232.65 bbl/s |
| 50 ac-ft/min | 6465.31 bbl/s |
| 100 ac-ft/min | 12930.6 bbl/s |