Energy units

["A.D. Karve" <adkarve@pn2.vsnl.net.in>]

Dear Stovers,
our Government has magnanimously sanctioned us some money for buying a bomb
calorimeter, which is certainly going to be of great help to us in our
briquettes related work.  Since we shall now be able to measure the energy
value of our fuel briquettes, and since we would also be reporting the
figures, I would like to know which units are prefered by this group. The
contributers to discussions in this group have been using BTU per pound,
calories per kg and Joules per kg.  Our Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy
Sources prefers KCal per kg, and they would expect us too to use the same
unit. I am quite sure that the conversion formulae are available in some
engineering or physics books, but our Institute does not have them. Would
somebody from this group provide us with the formulae for converting
BTU/pound into Joules/kg and  KCal/kg, and for Joules to KCal?
Dr.A.D.Karve, President
Appropriate Rural Technology Institute
Maninee Apartments, Survey no. 13
Dhayarigaon, Pune 411 041, India.




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