Convert Acre-feet per second to US barrels per second

Convert Acre-feet per second (ac-ft/s) to US barrels per second (bbl/s) instantly and accurately.

Acre-feet per second (ac-ft/s)
US barrels per second (bbl/s)

Conversion Formula

bbl/s = ac-ft/s × 7758.367347

About Acre-feet per second

The acre-foot per second (ac-ft/s) equals 1233.48183754752 m³/s, an enormous unit representing the flow that would fill a football-field-sized area to 1 ft depth every second. It appears in descriptions of exceptionally large dam-break flood waves and major river-system extreme events. The 1976 Teton Dam collapse peak outflow was estimated at ≈65 000 ft³/s ≈ 1.49 ac-ft/s. 1 ac-ft/s = 1 233.48 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 second (ac-ft/s)US barrels per second (bbl/s)
1 ac-ft/s7758.37 bbl/s
2 ac-ft/s15516.7 bbl/s
5 ac-ft/s38791.8 bbl/s
10 ac-ft/s77583.7 bbl/s
25 ac-ft/s193959 bbl/s
50 ac-ft/s387918 bbl/s
100 ac-ft/s775837 bbl/s

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