Standard pressure and temperature

[Burl Vibert]

Lawrence C Leung wrote:
> 
> The gauge is absolute, so the standard it compares things to is a vacuum.
> Thus, no pressure at all (relative to a vacuum) is 0.0 bar. Atmospheric
> pressure at sea level is 1.0 bar, which is the pressure of the
> surrounding air, caused by the weight of the atmosphere above sea level.
> 2.0 bar means that the manifold is at 14.7 lbs/in/in (1.0 bar) ABOVE
> normal atmospheric pressure. It's actually a fairly sizable amount of
> pressure.


Just to be picky,  it's 1.01325 Bar at standard  pressure (14.696
psi, sea level).   2 Bar absolute is actually 14.312 PSIG at sea
level.


Burl Vibert
1987 5kcstq
Kingston, Ontario