Job Description:

• 1) Tends batch still and polymerization vessel to distill and polymerize acrylic acid used in production of plastics: Tends laboratory-type batch still to vaporize and condense acrylic acid.

• 2) Measures amount of distillate, using burette or gauging rod, and pours distilled acid into water-jacketed polymerization vessel.

• 3) Heats vessel to prescribed temperature, and adds specified quantity of reagents to effect polymerization.

• 4) Draws samples of product for laboratory analysis.

• 5) Turns valves to transfer polymerized acid to storage or processing areas.