Convert British Thermal Units to Electronvolts

The British Thermal Unit (symbol: BTU) is a unit of energy. An imperial unit of heat energy, defined as the amount of heat required to raise one pound of liquid water by 1 °F at standard conditions (≈ 1,055.06 J under the International Table definition adopted by ASHRAE and ASTM). BTUs are the universal working unit in US heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) per ASHRAE Handbook conventions: air-conditioner cooling capacity (12,000 BTU/h = 1 'ton' of cooling = 3.517 kW; a typical residential central AC is 2-5 tons = 24,000-60,000 BTU/h), gas furnace output (40,000-100,000 BTU/h for residential), gas-water-heater input (~30,000-50,000 BTU/h), wood-stove output ratings, and gas-fireplace BTU specs. Natural gas wholesale and retail commerce uses 'MMBTU' (one million BTU) as the standard contractual unit — a Henry Hub natural-gas futures contract is denominated in MMBTU. Natural gas itself has heating content ~1,030 BTU per standard cubic foot (scf). 1 BTU = 1,055.06 J = 0.2520 kcal = 0.000293 kWh.

It belongs to the imperial measurement system.

British Thermal Units are commonly used in nutrition, electrical billing, physics, and mechanical engineering.

The Electronvolt (symbol: eV) is a unit of energy. A unit of energy equal to the kinetic energy gained by an electron accelerating through an electric potential difference of one volt in vacuum, defined since the 2019 SI redefinition as exactly 1.602176634 × 10⁻¹⁹ joules (CODATA 2018, BIPM SI Brochure). The electronvolt is the natural working unit of atomic, molecular, and particle physics where joules are too large to be convenient: chemical bond energies are a few eV (C-C bond ~3.6 eV, O-H bond ~4.8 eV), photon energies in the visible spectrum are 1.6-3.1 eV (red to violet), X-rays carry keV (medical diagnostic ~80-140 keV, hard X-ray ~10-100 keV), nuclear-reaction Q-values are MeV (fission of U-235 releases ~200 MeV per atom), particle-collider beam energies are GeV-TeV (LHC operates at 13.6 TeV center-of-mass), and astrophysical sources reach PeV / EeV (highest-energy cosmic rays ~3 × 10²⁰ eV = 300 EeV). Particle physics papers in Physical Review D, JHEP, Nature Physics, and the PDG Review of Particle Physics report all energies, masses (E = mc² gives a free conversion), and cross-sections in eV or its derivatives. 1 eV ≈ 1.602 × 10⁻¹⁹ J ≈ 1.602 × 10⁻¹² erg.

Electronvolts are commonly used in nutrition, electrical billing, physics, and mechanical engineering.