Job Description:

• 1) Operates equipment to cool, condense, and separate tar and ammonia from coke-oven gas and pump separated substances to specified locations: Turns valves to transfer materials from collecting mains through cooler, scrubbers, and decanter.

• 2) Starts pumps, reads gauges and thermometers, and adjusts valves to regulate temperatures, pressures, and rate of flow of gas, tar, ammonia liquor, and water.

• 3) Observes flow of tar from decanter and manually adjusts seal to alter level of interface between tar and liquor and regulate liquor settling time.

• 4) Pumps gas to next process, tar to storage tanks, and liquor to collecting mains or to liquor storage tanks.

• 5) Records temperature, pressures, and amount of tar and liquor pumped.

• 6) Repairs pipes, using handtools.

• 7) Turns valves to bypass equipment requiring repair or cleaning.

• 8) May flush interior of coils with hot ammonia liquor to remove tar.

• 9) May adjust and lubricate floats, valves, and other equipment, using handtools and lubricating equipment.