Job Description:

• 1) Operates stills, pumps, and related equipment to extract and refine ammonia from ammonia liquor: Adjusts feed valves to regulate flow of liquor and steam to stills and water to condensers and dephlegmator.

• 2) Reads thermometers and gauges, adjusts valves, and regulates pumps to maintain specified temperatures and pressures to boil off waste vapors and ammonia.

• 3) Pumps ammonia to saturator for mixing with water to produce liquid ammonia, and pumps ammonia to storage tanks.

• 4) Pumps waste liquor to sewer.

• 5) Determines amount of ammonia in waste liquor and water, using titrattion test, and adjusts temperatures and pressures to reduce loss of ammonia.

• 6) Keeps record of pressures, temperatures, test results, and amount of liquor and steam fed to stills.

• 7) May produce concentrated ammonia liquor by condensing vapors in water-cooled condensers.

• 8) Cleans work area, using broom, brushes, and lime.