No. 6 fuel oil has a combustion value of 151,300 - 155,900 Btu/US gallon.
About 115K BTU per gallon.
140,000 btu/gallon, nominal
#2 fuel oil = 140,000 btu/gallon. Psi does not matter.
approx. 140,000
btu per pound * pounds per gallon OK, it sounds as if you know the value of fuel in oil btu per pound.Now find out how much a gallon of fuel oil weighs and multiply the btu value x that weight in pounds and that is the value per gallon. Or simply, diesel fuel is #2 fuel oil which contains 140,000 btu per gallon.
A gallon of jet fuel supplies 126,000 BTU. So...a million BTU is less than 8 gallons.
One gallon of diesel fuel is equal to 139,200 BTU. The man who invented the compression-ignition engine was Rudolf Diesel. This is where diesel fuel gets its name.
114,000 BTU/gallon
114100 Btu
For regular gasoline, 125,000 BTU per US gallon
In a gallon of gasoline, there is approximately 124,884 btu. BTU refers to British thermal unit. It is actually a traditional unit.
i think it is one british thermal unit