Convert Kilolitres per minute to US barrels per second

Convert Kilolitres per minute (kL/min) to US barrels per second (bbl/s) instantly and accurately.

Kilolitres per minute (kL/min)
US barrels per second (bbl/s)

Conversion Formula

bbl/s = kL/min × 0.1048301795

About Kilolitres per minute

The kilolitre per minute (kL/min) equals 1/60 m³/s ≈ 0.016667 m³/s, used in Australian water-utility engineering for pump and pipeline sizing. Irrigation district delivery schedules and water-authority trunk-main flow records in Australia and New Zealand frequently use kL/min as an intermediate unit between L/s and ML/d. 1 kL/min = 1 000 L/min ≈ 264.2 US gal/min.

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

Kilolitres per minute (kL/min)US barrels per second (bbl/s)
1 kL/min0.10483 bbl/s
2 kL/min0.20966 bbl/s
5 kL/min0.524151 bbl/s
10 kL/min1.0483 bbl/s
25 kL/min2.62075 bbl/s
50 kL/min5.24151 bbl/s
100 kL/min10.483 bbl/s

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