Convert kilowatt to BTU per hour
1 kW = 3,412.141633 BTU/h
1 kW = 3,412.1 BTU/h
1 kW in every power unit
| nanowatt | 1,000,000,000,000 nW |
| erg per second | 10,000,000,000 erg/s |
| microwatt | 1,000,000,000 μW |
| milliwatt | 1,000,000 mW |
| foot pound-force per minute | 44,254 ft·lbf/min |
| BTU per hour | 3,412.1 BTU/h |
| watt | 1,000 W |
| kilocalorie per hour | 859.85 kcal/h |
| foot pound-force per second | 737.56 ft·lbf/s |
| thousand BTU per hour | 3.4121 MBH |
| metric horsepower | 1.3596 PS |
| horsepower (mechanical) | 1.341 hp |
| electrical horsepower | 1.3405 hp (elec) |
| kilowatt | 1 kW |
| ton of refrigeration | 0.28435 ton |
| boiler horsepower | 0.10194 bhp |
| million BTU per hour | 0.0034121 MMBTU/h |
| megawatt | 0.001 MW |
| gigawatt | 0.000001 GW |
| terawatt | 1.0000e-09 TW |
| solar luminosity | 2.6123e-24 Lsun |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 3,412.141633 to go from kilowatt 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 kilowatt — 1 BTU/h = 0.0002930710702 kW.
kilowatt to BTU per hour — common values
| 1 kW | 3,412.1416 BTU/h |
| 2 kW | 6,824.2833 BTU/h |
| 3 kW | 10,236.425 BTU/h |
| 5 kW | 17,060.708 BTU/h |
| 10 kW | 34,121.416 BTU/h |
| 15 kW | 51,182.124 BTU/h |
| 20 kW | 68,242.833 BTU/h |
| 25 kW | 85,303.541 BTU/h |
| 50 kW | 170,607.08 BTU/h |
| 75 kW | 255,910.62 BTU/h |
| 100 kW | 341,214.16 BTU/h |
| 250 kW | 853,035.41 BTU/h |
| 500 kW | 1,706,070.8 BTU/h |
| 1000 kW | 3,412,141.6 BTU/h |