(a) Each turbine engine installation must incorporate an oil strainer
or filter through which all of the engine oil flows and which meets the
following requirements:
(1) Each oil strainer or filter that has a bypass must be constructed
and installed so that oil will flow at the normal rate through the rest of
the system with the strainer or filter completely blocked.
(2) The oil strainer or filter must have the capacity (with respect to
operating limitations established for the engine) to ensure that engine
oil system functioning is not impaired when the oil is contaminated to a
degree (with respect to particle size and density) that is greater than
that established for the engine under Part 33 of this chapter.
(3) The oil strainer or filter, unless it is installed at an oil tank
outlet, must incorporate a means to indicate contamination before it
reaches the capacity established in accordance with paragraph (a)(2) of
this section.
(4) The bypass of a strainer or filter must be constructed and
installed so that the release of collected contaminants is minimized by
appropriate location of the bypass to ensure that collected contaminants
are not in the bypass flow path.
(5) An oil strainer or filter that has no bypass, except one that is
installed at an oil tank outlet, must have a means to connect it to the
warning system required in §29.1305(a)(18).
(b) Each oil strainer or filter in a powerplant installation using
reciprocating engines must be constructed and installed so that oil will
flow at the normal rate through the rest of the system with the strainer
or filter element completely blocked.