Conversion Factor - Common Conversion Factors For Water and Wastewater

Common Conversion Factors For Water and Wastewater

For water treatment or reservoirs, there are several conversion factors which are commonly used:

  • Since 1 day = 24 hours = 1440 minutes, therefore 15 minutes (1 day/1440 minutes) = 15/1440 ~= 0.010416667 ~= 0.01 days.
  • 1 million gallons per day (MGD) = 3.069 acre feet per day (ac-ft/day) = 1.55 cubic feet per second (cfs) = 694 gallons per minute (gpm)
  • 1 gallon = 3785 milliliters = 3.785 liters = 8.34 pounds of water.

Examples of conversions:

  1. 55 gallons of water (8.34 pound/1 gallon) = 458.7 pounds.
  2. a hose running 20 gpm for 1 day (1440 minutes/1 day) = 28,800 gallons/day.
  3. a one-ton truck can carry 2000 pounds (1 gallon/8.34 pounds) = 240 gallons (water).

Read more about this topic:  Conversion Factor

Famous quotes containing the words common, conversion, factors and/or water:

    “The line of separation was very distinct, and the Indian immediately remarked, “I guess you and I go there,—I guess there’s room for my canoe there.” This was his common expression instead of saying “we.” He never addressed us by our names, though curious to know how they were spelled and what they meant, while we called him Polis. He had already guessed very accurately at our ages, and said that he was forty-eight.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence,—luxury, scepticism, weariness and superstition,—are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “Thales claimed that everything was water. He also put wine into water to sterilize it. Did he really believe he was putting water into water to sterilize it? Parmenides, like most Greeks, knew that wine was not water. But while lifting a glass of wine to his lips, he denied that motion was possible. Did he really believe that the glass was not moving when he lifted it?”
    —Avrum Stroll (b. 1921)