Convert US barrels per hour to US quarts per second
Convert US barrels per hour (bbl/h) to US quarts per second (qt/s) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
qt/s = bbl/h × 0.04666666667
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 US quarts per second
The US quart per second (qt/s) equals 3.785411784×10⁻³/4 ≈ 9.464×10⁻⁴ m³/s, used in US industrial filling lines handling quart-size containers (motor oil, paint, sauce). A high-speed filling machine loading 1 qt bottles at 4 per second processes 4 qt/s per nozzle. 1 US qt/s ≈ 9.464×10⁻⁴ m³/s = 0.9464 L/s.
Quick Reference Table
| US barrels per hour (bbl/h) | US quarts per second (qt/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 bbl/h | 0.0466667 qt/s |
| 2 bbl/h | 0.0933333 qt/s |
| 5 bbl/h | 0.233333 qt/s |
| 10 bbl/h | 0.466667 qt/s |
| 25 bbl/h | 1.16667 qt/s |
| 50 bbl/h | 2.33333 qt/s |
| 100 bbl/h | 4.66667 qt/s |