CFR > Title 46 - Shipping > CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY > SUBCHAPTER Q—EQUIPMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND MATERIALS: SPECIFICATIONS AND APPROVAL (parts 159 to 165) > PART 162—ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT > SUBPART 162.050—Pollution Prevention Equipment (§162.050-1 to §162.050-39) > 162.050-19—Oil content meter and bilge alarm test rig.

162.050-19—Oil content meter and bilge alarm test rig.

(a) This section contains requirements for test rigs used in approval testing of oil content meters and meter. A typical test rig is described in Figure 162.050-19. The mixture pipe shown in Figure 162.050-19 is the portion of test rig piping between the oil injection point and the meter or bilge alarm piping.
(b) Each sample point on a test rig must be of the type described in Figure 162.050-17(e) and must be in a vertical portion of the test rig piping.
(c) Each test rig must have a centrifugal pump that is designed to operate at 1,000 revolutions per minute or more.
(d) The mixture pipe on a test rig must have a uniform inside diameter.

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[CGD 76-088a, 44 FR 53359, Sept. 13, 1979, as amended by USCG-2004-18939, 74 FR 3385, Jan. 16, 2009]