Job Description:

• 1) Tends processing equipment that separates organic colloidal matter from carbonated raw sugar beet liquor, and purifies liquor prior to refining into granulated sugar: Opens valves and starts pump to fill settling tank with liquor and adds specified amounts of lime or milk of lime solution.

• 2) Sets controls to maintain specified temperature of lime-liquor solution to aid in precipitation process.

• 3) Takes sample of liquor from tank and tests for purity, using refractometer.

• 4) Opens valves and pumps liquor to process storage tanks and lime sludge to filter station.

• 5) Washes remaining sludge from bottom of settling tank.

• 6) Records data, such as amount of liquor processed and refractometer readings on batches, in station log.