6.1 Oil Filtering Equipment
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6.1 Oil Filtering Equipment

  6.1.1 For future inspection purposes on board ship, a sampling point should be provided in a vertical section of the water effluent piping as close as is practicable to the equipment outlet. Recirculating facilities should be provided to enable the oil filtering equipment to be tested with the overboard discharge closed at initial and periodic surveys.

  6.1.2 Means should be taken to ensure that, in practice, the rated capacity of the equipment is not exceeded by:

  • .1 connecting only pumps of a capacity equal to, or less than, that of the equipment; or

  • .2 permanently restricting the discharge to the equipment where larger pumps may be connected.

  6.1.3 In any case, equipment should not be supplied from a pump which has a capacity more than 1.5 times the rated capacity of the equipment.

  6.1.4 The equipment should be fitted with a permanently attached plate giving any operational or installation limits considered necessary by the manufacturer or the Administration.

Parent topic: 6 Installation Requirements
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