A 'standard cubic foot' (abbreviated as scf) is a measure of quantity of gas, equal to a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees
Fahrenheit and either 14.696
pounds per square inch (1
atm) or 14.73 PSI (30
inHg) of
pressure. See
standard temperature and pressure.
A standard cubic foot is thus not a unit of volume but of quantity, and the conversion to
normal cubic metres is not the same as converting
cubic feet to
cubic metres (multiplying by 0.0283168...), since the standard temperature and pressure used are different. Assuming an
ideal gas, a standard cubic foot using the present convention of 14.73 PSI represents 0.0026412
lbmols, or 1.19804
gram moles, equivalent to 0.026853 normal cubic metres.
'Trillion cubic feet', commonly abbreviated as 'Tcf', is used in the
oil and gas industry. The term
trillion in this case refers to
1012, the
short scale definition employed by most English speaking countries.