Converting BTU into Fahrenheit? If I have 2,000 BTU, how many degrees of heat do I have?

They cannot be converted, they are different units.

"1 BTU is the amount of heat required to raise 1 pound of water 1 degree fahrenheit" correct but that has nothing to do with your question. Yes, it translated BTU to temperature, but only if you have 1 pound of water.

"2,000 BTU raises 1 pound of water to 2,000 Fahrenheit" yes, but only for 1 pound of water. 1000 pounds and the temp would go up by 2º

"Therefore meaning 2,000 BTU is pretty much 2,000 Fahrenheit". NO, see above.

"I assume "cal to 15 °C" means one calorie = 15 degrees Celsius" NO. that is about two slightly different definition of calorie, one labeled "15º calorie" because it is base on water at 15º

"2,000 BTU gives off a total of 939°F" NO, false.

AGAIN, other answer is totally correct, you CANNOT convert BTU to temperature.

email me if this is still unclear.

some more details: 2000 BTU will heat up a pound of water by about 2000ºF as you said, skipping the state changes and all the other things that happen at high temps. But it will heat 2000 pounds by only 1ºF, or 20000 pounds by 0.1ºF

BTUs have two completely different meanings. BTU when used in a physics problem is a unit of energy. BTU when used by a furnace or heating person in the US is a unit of power (it really represents 1 BTU/hour). Neither directly corresponds to temperature.

Think of it this way: A match has a specific BTU output. It can raise the temperature of a cup of water only a few degrees before it burns out. But if you hold it over a piece of paper, it can raise it to several hundred degrees (and the paper starts to burn).

So you cannot translate from BTU to temperature. It depends on several things. A tiny flame would have to be very, very hot to put out 2000BTU/hour, but a very large flame could be cooler.

"Would that then mean that 2,000 BTU raises 1 pound of water to 2,000 Fahrenheit? Therefore meaning 2,000 BTU is pretty much 2,000 Fahrenheit?" No, it doesn't work like that. You could have an electric blanket that put out 2000 BTU over several hours, but it would never be above 100F.

In short, the question you are asking has no answer. Can you back up and try to tell more about why you think there should be a specific temperature associated with 2000BTU?

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Converting BTU into Fahrenheit? If I have 2,000 BTU, how many degrees of heat do I have?

Okay so I know they are two different types of measurement......

But I searched a LOT of conversions and calculators and pretty much did every background work I could think of....

And got two different answers.

All I want to know is: About how hot would a flame with 2,000 BTU...

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As you say, there isn't a direct conversion. That's because it will depend on many things, such as how much of that energy is going into the metal, and how much of the energy is being radiated away from the metal. Putting the metal object on a large metal table would be a bad idea for instance. Such a table is called a "heat sink" because it draws heat away from things. The more it is exposed to air currents and the open lower-temperature air, the more heat will be lost that way too. That says to me that you want some kind of enclosure that can stand these high temperatures, although if there are fumes being given off maybe you need to have some sort of venting for safety. About the only calculation I can do is the energy naturally radiated away from a 600 F object. That's 589 K. According to the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, such an object radiates (5.67x10^-8)(589^4) = 6824 Watts per square meter of surface area. (The more surface, the more heat loss). A BTU is pretty close to a kJ/sec (1000 W), so that's about 6.8 BTU per second per square meter or 24,000 BTU per hour. So not 600 F if you've got a square meter of surface area. But if you do the same calculation at 400 F, that's only 43% of the energy or about 10,000 BTU/hr. So you're in the right ball park, especially if your surface area is a lot smaller than 1 m^2.

I had something like over 100,000 BTU propane forced air heater and this is my conclusion. The heat coming out of the unit I measured was always 150 degrees, but the BTU s I believe relate to how big of an area the heater can effectively heat, the smaller the area the closer to 150 degrees the whole room gets, so if you get too many BTU s for the area you are heating it will heat up quicker and faster in that room, or if the BTU s aren t enough for the room then it won t heat it effectively. I hope this helps.

HEAT IS MEASURED IN CALORIES OR BTUs, British Thermal units.

Temperature is measured in degrees, degrees F or C or K

heat is an amount of energy in an amount of material. A pot of boiling water has more heat than a cup of boiling water.

BTU is the amount of hat needed to raise the temp of 1 pound of water 1 degree F.

2000 BTU can be to raise 1 pound 2000 degrees F.[ although with water you have phase change ad it takes a different amount of heat to change the temp of ice or steam]

2000 BTU can also be raising the temp f 2000 pounds of water 1 degree F

temperature is the average kinetic energy of a material. In other words , on the average, how much are the molecules moving.

There really is no direct conversion since they measure different quantities

1 calorie is needed to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree C

Celsius to F is an easy conversion, C= about 9/5F or F= about 5/9 C, but they start at different places on the scale, either 0C or 32F

some of your numbers are incorrect. [1 C is not 33.8 F] [15 C is not a calorie]

Temp of flames can be determined. It depends on what as is being burned, and how much at a time.

BTU is used regarding adding heat to a room, or removing it as in an air conditioner , you have to know what material is being heated and how much of it.

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I need my house to reach 180 degrees to kill bed bugs. What btu in my keresen heater do I need

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