Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that burns condensed black liquor into black ash: Turns valves to regulate spray of black liquor into cyclone drier and flow of air through drier to dry black liquor to specified concentration.

• 2) Determines moisture content of liquor, using moisture testing equipment.

• 3) As directed, turns rheostat to adjust mechanism in mixing tank to feed salt cake into black liquor prior to burning.

• 4) Turns valves as directed to channel steam into evaporators or into main line.

• 5) Pushes steam lance through boiler tubes or turns crank that rotates steam jets through boiler to blow out soot and sludge.

• 6) Scrapes sludge from interior of furnace, using scraper and rake.