Biosolids Engineering

| Acceleration due to gravity (standard), | |||
| g = 32.174 ft/s 2 (9.80665 m/s 2)(value varies with latitude) | |||
| Avogadro's number, N = 6.02283 10 23 molecules/g-mole Boltzmann's constant, k = 1.3805 10 ?23 J/ K British thermal unit (Btu at 60 F) = 778 ft-lb = 1054.54 J Faraday's constant, F = 96,487 C(abs)/g-equiv. Gas law constants | |||
| R = 1543 ft lb/(lb-mol) R (universal) R = 53.3 ft lb/(lb-air) R (engineering gas constant for air) R = 0.729 ft 3 atm/(lb-mol) R | |||
| Latent heat of fusion of water (0 C and 1 atm) = 144 Btu/lb = 334 J/g Latent heat of vaporization of water (100 C and 1 atm) = 971 Btu/lb = 2258 J/g Molecular mass of dry air = 28.97 lb/lb-mol (g/g-mol) One acre = 43,560 ft 2 (2.4698 hectare) One angstrom, A =10 ?10 m One bar = 14.504 lb f/in 2 (10 5 N/m 2) One cubic foot = 7.48 gal One horsepower = 550 ft lb/s = 0.7457 kW One pound per square inch = 2.31 ft of water One torr = 1/760 standard atmosphere = 1 mm Hg Specific weight of water (68 F) = 62.31 lb/ft 3 Standard atmosphere = 14.7 Ib/in 2 [101.325 kPa (kN/m 2)] | |||
| = 33.899 ft (10.333 m) of water = 29.92 in Hg = 76 mm... |