NEW TEST HOUSE FOR WORK ON FUEL OIL FILTERS

Abstract

Users of lubricating oil filters expect them to remove every particle of contamination, even particles of one or two microns are sometimes expected to be removed. They also expect water to be taken out, although turbine oils are usually centrifuged for this purpose. However, the exacting requirements of lubricating oil filters are not, in many ways, so searching as those required for the filtration of aviation fuel oil. Apart from the removal of all solid contaminants, it is vitally necessary that all moisture be removed. This is not difficult to understand because if water in the fuel system freezes to lumps of ice, one or more engines can cut out without warning.

Citation

(1961), "NEW TEST HOUSE FOR WORK ON FUEL OIL FILTERS", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 13 No. 9, pp. 25-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052675