lb/(ft2s)\text{lb/(ft}^{2}{\cdot}\text{s)}

pound per square foot per second

Mass flux

One pound of material crossing one square foot every second, equal to 4.8824 kg/(m²·s). It appears in older North American fire and process literature, where burning rates and drying rates were tabulated in inch-pound units.

Watch out: The conversion is not a round number and there is no shortcut worth memorising. Note also that pounds per square foot without a time is a pressure — the psf that appears in wind and snow loading — and the two are entirely different quantities that read almost identically.

1 lb/(ft2s)\text{lb/(ft}^{2}{\cdot}\text{s)} 4.8824276 kg/(m2s)\text{kg/(m}^{2}{\cdot}\text{s)}

One pound per square foot per second in every mass flux unit

4.88243kilogram per square metre per second (kg/(m²·s))
4,882.43gram per square metre per second (g/(m²·s))
17,576.7kilogram per square metre per hour (kg/(m²·h))
17,576.7litre per square metre per hour (L/(m²·h))
1pound per square foot per second (lb/(ft²·s))this unit
3,600pound per square foot per hour (lb/(ft²·h))