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Stoves Archive for January 2002
240 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:31:22 2002

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Re: Energy units



On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:36:26 +0530, "A.D. Karve"
<adkarve@pn2.vsnl.net.in> wrote:

>figures, I would like to know which units are prefered by this group. The

I prefer SI units.

>contributers to discussions in this group have been using BTU per pound,

These are US preferences

>calories per kg and Joules per kg.  Our Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy
>Sources prefers KCal per kg,

Either of these are easy to convert

> 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?

There is a small program by Josh Maddison, I have convert.exe 4.08
that does the majority of conversions, I think it is a free download
from http://www.joshmadison.com/software or I could e-mail you it. I
see the current version is 4.10 and is 152kbyte

AJH
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