 | John Mills - 1910 - 156 lapas
...15° to 16° Centigrade is the thermal unit in the CGS system and is called the calorie. And similarly the amount of heat (energy) required to raise the temperature of one pound of water from G2° to 63° Fahrenheit is called a British thermal unit, or as abbreviated a Bt... | |
 | Charles Thomas Brodie Donkin - 1926 - 298 lapas
...Centigrade Heat Unit (CHU), each of which can be converted into foot pounds. One British Thermal Unit is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water through one degree Fahrenheit ; it is equal to 778 foot pounds. The Centigrade Heat... | |
 | Southern California Ocean Studies Consortium - 1974 - 952 lapas
...IN TABLES 18-173, 18-174, and 18-175* 1. BTU (British Thermal Unit) - A unit of measurement equal to the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree F. This unit is commonly used to measure the quantity of heat available from... | |
 | Kaiman Lee - 1975 - 634 lapas
...approximately 400 BTU/hr., which may increase to as much as 1,600 BTU/hr. during heavy exercise. A BTU is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water to 1° F. The surrounding air temperature has a direct bearing on comfort although it... | |
 | Donald Bruce Peterson - 1985 - 104 lapas
...primarily in the Eastern US Btu (British Thermal Unit): A unit of energy. Defined as the quantity of energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. Capacity Factor: The ratio of the amount of electricity actually produced per... | |
 | Leandre Poisson, Gretchen Vogel Poisson - 1994 - 289 lapas
...and temperature. Heat is commonly measured in terms of BTUs (British thermal units); one BTU equals the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. For example, if ten BTUs are applied to one pound of water at a temperature... | |
 | Susan Selke - 1994 - 264 lapas
...and Shanley, 1991). A quad is one quadrillion Btus. A Btu, or British thermal unit, is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit, at specified standard conditions. It is estimated that about 2.4 quads, or 3... | |
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428 lapas
...commercial, industrial, and transportation use. (One Btu, or British thermal unit, equals the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. That energy equals 251.996 calories or 1054.8 joules. One quadrillion Btus thus... | |
 | Marilyn Gross, Richard Feldman - 1998 - 353 lapas
...and petroleum products equivalent to 42 US standard gallons at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by 1 °F at or near 39.1 °F and 1 atmosphere of pressure. One BTU is about equal to the heat given off by a... | |
 | Alphonso Hendricks, Loganathan Subramony, Charmaine Van Blerk - 2000 - 444 lapas
...amount of energy contained within a particular system. 0 The calorie (abbreviated cal) is defined as the amount of heat (energy) required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. The calorie is not a basic SI unit for heat. The International... | |
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FIG. 101 is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. 
