Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment to recover acetone, used in acetate rayon manufacture, from vapor produced by dry spinning of rayon filaments: Turns valves to admit vaporized acetone from spinning units to recovery system and to maintain cooling coils in condenser at specified temperature for efficient acetone recovery.

• 2) May pump recovered acetone to storage tanks or recirculate it to mixing machines in which cellulose acetate flakes are dissolved to form spinning solution.