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Re: refrigerator tons



~Bob Sciamanda wrote:

~Last summer while shopping for central air conditioning, I found that
~although room air conditioners are specified in BTU/hr, central air
~conditioning units are specified in "tons of air conditioning". It took
~a laborious net search and sending AC engineers back to their literature
~to translate this specification. Who in Phys-L has the answer?


CRC Handbook Conversion factors

1 Ton of refrigeration (US)= 288000 Btu (IST)

= 287774 Btu (mean)

= 2009.1 Lb of ice melted.

Dr. Vern Lindberg 716-475-2546
Department of Physics Fax 475-5766
85 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623