Convert US barrels per hour to Acre-feet per second
Convert US barrels per hour (bbl/h) to Acre-feet per second (ac-ft/s) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
ac-ft/s = bbl/h × 3.580363823e-8
About US barrels per hour
The US barrel per hour (bbl/h) equals 0.158987294928/3600 ≈ 4.416×10⁻⁵ m³/s, standard in petroleum-refinery process engineering for crude-oil unit feed rates and product run-downs. Crude-distillation unit (CDU) feed is sized in bbl/h; a 100 000 bbl/d refinery processes ≈4 167 bbl/h. Process simulation software (Aspen HYSYS) uses bbl/h by default for petroleum streams. 1 bbl/h ≈ 4.416×10⁻⁵ m³/s.
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.
Quick Reference Table
| US barrels per hour (bbl/h) | Acre-feet per second (ac-ft/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 bbl/h | 3.58 × 10-8 ac-ft/s |
| 2 bbl/h | 7.161 × 10-8 ac-ft/s |
| 5 bbl/h | 1.79 × 10-7 ac-ft/s |
| 10 bbl/h | 3.58 × 10-7 ac-ft/s |
| 25 bbl/h | 8.951 × 10-7 ac-ft/s |
| 50 bbl/h | 1.79 × 10-6 ac-ft/s |
| 100 bbl/h | 3.58 × 10-6 ac-ft/s |