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    What Is A BTU?: British Thermal Unit (BTU or Btu)

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    The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a traditional unit of energy equal to about 1 055.05585 joules used in industries like power, steam generation, heating and air conditioning to measure energy production. Gas and oil swimming pool boilers are typically sized in thousands of BTUs and range from 55,000 to 400,000 BTUs, with efficiencies affecting final heat output.

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    The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a traditional unit of energy equal to about 1 055.05585 joules used in industries like power, steam generation, heating and air conditioning to measure energy production. Gas and oil swimming pool boilers are typically sized in thousands of BTUs and range from 55,000 to 400,000 BTUs, with efficiencies affecting final heat output.

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    The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a traditional unit of energy equal to about 1 055.05585 joules used in industries like power, steam generation, heating and air conditioning to measure energy production. Gas and oil swimming pool boilers are typically sized in thousands of BTUs and range from 55,000 to 400,000 BTUs, with efficiencies affecting final heat output.

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    What Is A BTU?: British Thermal Unit (BTU or Btu)

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    The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a traditional unit of energy equal to about 1 055.05585 joules used in industries like power, steam generation, heating and air conditioning to measure energy production. Gas and oil swimming pool boilers are typically sized in thousands of BTUs and range from 55,000 to 400,000 BTUs, with efficiencies affecting final heat output.

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    What is a BTU?

    British thermal unit (BTU or Btu)

    The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a traditional unit of energy equal to about 1 055.05585
    joules. It is approximately the amount of energy needed to heat 1 pound (0.454 kg) of water 1 °F
    (0.556 °C).

    It is used in the power, steam generation, heating and air conditioning industries. In scientific
    contexts the BTU has largely been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule, although it may be
    used as a measure of agricultural energy production (BTU/kg).

    All gas & oil swimming pool boilers tend to be sized in BTU’s. Below you will see a typical scale of
    BTU’s expressed in units of thousands used in the pool boiler industry and the equivalent Kilo Watt
    conversion;

    1 watt = 3.41214 BTU/h - 1kilo watt = 3412 BTU/h - 1000 BTU/h = 293 watt’s

    Typical Boiler Sizes as indicated for input power:

    55,000 btu = 16 Kilo Watts

    105,000 btu = 30 Kilo Watts

    125,000 btu = 36 Kilo Watts

    155,000 btu = 45 Kilo Watts

    175,000 btu = 51 Kilo Watts

    185,000 btu = 54 Kilo Watts

    250,000 btu = 73 Kilo Watts

    265,000 btu = 77 Kilo Watts

    325,000 btu = 95 Kilo Watts

    400,000 btu = 117 Kilo Watts

    Depending on the efficiency rating of the boiler greatly effects its final performance. Traditional
    boilers tend to be 80% efficient, so 20% is lost in the process of combustion etc, condensing boilers
    tend to be closer to 95% efficient so only 5% or so is lost from the input power rating. For
    comparison purposes, a traditional pool boiler of 125,000 BTU will generate 100,000 BTU’s of heat
    per hour, whereas a Genie 36kw (123,000 BTU) boiler will generate 118,000 BTU’s of heat per hour,
    almost 20% more per hour than the traditional style boiler.

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