Convert horsepower (mechanical) to BTU per hour
1 hp = 2,544.433578 BTU/h
1 hp = 2,544.4 BTU/h
1 hp in every power unit
| nanowatt | 745,700,000,000 nW |
| erg per second | 7,457,000,000 erg/s |
| microwatt | 745,700,000 μW |
| milliwatt | 745,700 mW |
| foot pound-force per minute | 33,000 ft·lbf/min |
| BTU per hour | 2,544.4 BTU/h |
| watt | 745.7 W |
| kilocalorie per hour | 641.19 kcal/h |
| foot pound-force per second | 550 ft·lbf/s |
| thousand BTU per hour | 2.5444 MBH |
| metric horsepower | 1.0139 PS |
| horsepower (mechanical) | 1 hp |
| electrical horsepower | 0.9996 hp (elec) |
| kilowatt | 0.7457 kW |
| ton of refrigeration | 0.21204 ton |
| boiler horsepower | 0.076018 bhp |
| million BTU per hour | 0.0025444 MMBTU/h |
| megawatt | 0.0007457 MW |
| gigawatt | 7.4570e-07 GW |
| terawatt | 7.4570e-10 TW |
| solar luminosity | 1.9480e-24 Lsun |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 2,544.433578 to go from horsepower (mechanical) to BTU per hour, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (W) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? BTU per hour to horsepower (mechanical) — 1 BTU/h = 0.0003930147789 hp.
horsepower (mechanical) to BTU per hour — common values
| 1 hp | 2,544.4336 BTU/h |
| 2 hp | 5,088.8672 BTU/h |
| 3 hp | 7,633.3007 BTU/h |
| 5 hp | 12,722.168 BTU/h |
| 10 hp | 25,444.336 BTU/h |
| 15 hp | 38,166.504 BTU/h |
| 20 hp | 50,888.672 BTU/h |
| 25 hp | 63,610.839 BTU/h |
| 50 hp | 127,221.68 BTU/h |
| 75 hp | 190,832.52 BTU/h |
| 100 hp | 254,443.36 BTU/h |
| 250 hp | 636,108.39 BTU/h |
| 500 hp | 1,272,216.8 BTU/h |
| 1000 hp | 2,544,433.6 BTU/h |