Convert UK pints per minute to US barrels per second
Convert UK pints per minute (pt/min) to US barrels per second (bbl/s) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
bbl/s = pt/min × 5.957092884e-5
About UK pints per minute
The UK pint per minute (pt/min) equals 4.54609×10⁻³/8/60 ≈ 9.471×10⁻⁶ m³/s, common in British beer-dispense engineering and pump datasheets pre-metrication. A cellar gas dispense system pressurising beer lines at 2 UK pt/min per tap maintains balanced flow for a 6-tap bar. 1 UK pt/min ≈ 9.471×10⁻⁶ m³/s ≈ 0.5683 L/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
| UK pints per minute (pt/min) | US barrels per second (bbl/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 pt/min | 5.957 × 10-5 bbl/s |
| 2 pt/min | 0.000119142 bbl/s |
| 5 pt/min | 0.000297855 bbl/s |
| 10 pt/min | 0.000595709 bbl/s |
| 25 pt/min | 0.00148927 bbl/s |
| 50 pt/min | 0.00297855 bbl/s |
| 100 pt/min | 0.00595709 bbl/s |