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
nanowatt745,700,000,000 nW
erg per second7,457,000,000 erg/s
microwatt745,700,000 μW
milliwatt745,700 mW
foot pound-force per minute33,000 ft·lbf/min
BTU per hour2,544.4 BTU/h
watt745.7 W
kilocalorie per hour641.19 kcal/h
foot pound-force per second550 ft·lbf/s
thousand BTU per hour2.5444 MBH
metric horsepower1.0139 PS
horsepower (mechanical)1 hp
electrical horsepower0.9996 hp (elec)
kilowatt0.7457 kW
ton of refrigeration0.21204 ton
boiler horsepower0.076018 bhp
million BTU per hour0.0025444 MMBTU/h
megawatt0.0007457 MW
gigawatt7.4570e-07 GW
terawatt7.4570e-10 TW
solar luminosity1.9480e-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 hp2,544.4336 BTU/h
2 hp5,088.8672 BTU/h
3 hp7,633.3007 BTU/h
5 hp12,722.168 BTU/h
10 hp25,444.336 BTU/h
15 hp38,166.504 BTU/h
20 hp50,888.672 BTU/h
25 hp63,610.839 BTU/h
50 hp127,221.68 BTU/h
75 hp190,832.52 BTU/h
100 hp254,443.36 BTU/h
250 hp636,108.39 BTU/h
500 hp1,272,216.8 BTU/h
1000 hp2,544,433.6 BTU/h