{"id":1684,"date":"2014-07-16T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/en\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:36:48","slug":"conversion-pressure-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/en\/knowhow\/conversion-pressure-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion of pressure units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The common units for the measurement parameter pressure are bar, psi, kg\/cm\u00b2, inHg and MPa, for example. In most cases, one unit has become established in a particular country or region. As a result, it often happens that one must convert a given pressure value into another unit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, in American data sheets, one commonly finds the pressure indication in the unit psi. In Germany and Western Europe, the unit bar is usual.<\/p>\n<p>How can one convert psi into bar and vice versa? <br \/>\nHow many psi is 1 bar? 1 bar = 14.503774 psi<br \/>\nHow many bar is 1 psi? 1 psi = 0.068948 bar<\/p>\n<p>It is really simple with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-en\/unit_calculator.WIKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\">unit converter<\/a>, with which you can easily convert different temperature and pressure values into various units. Worldwide, a variety of units are used for the measurement parameter pressure.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out where one generally uses which units in our article \u201c<a href=\"\/knowhow\/international-pressure-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International pressure units<\/a>\u201d. Electronic pressure measuring instruments (also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-en\/pressure_sensors.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">pressure sensors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-en\/process_transmitters.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">process transmitters<\/a> and pressure transmitters) from WIKA are available in different pressure units, such as bar, kPa, MPa, psi or kg\/cm\u00b2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The common units for the measurement parameter pressure are bar, psi, kg\/cm\u00b2, inHg and MPa, for example. In most cases, one unit has become established in a particular country or region. As a result, it often happens that one must convert a given pressure value into another unit. For example, in American data sheets, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[266,265],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowhow","tag-measuring-range","tag-type-of-pressure"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conversion of pressure units - WIKA blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Conversion of pressure units: The common units for the measurement parameter pressure are bar, psi, kg\/cm\u00b2, inHg and MPa, for example.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/en\/knowhow\/conversion-pressure-units\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conversion of pressure units - 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