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"WATER-TREATMENT-PLANT OPERATOR"
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  • 1) Tends water plant equipment that scrubs and purifies gases from smelting furnaces: Starts pumps and fans in scrubber towers and turns valves to regulate flow of water through nozzles.

  • 2) Pulls lever to open car bottom to unload lime from hopper cars into storage tanks.

  • 3) Knocks on bottom of hopper with pry bar or uses portable vibrator to loosen lime remaining in car.

  • 4) Dumps specified number of sacks of sulfate, hydroxide, and fluoride into mixer machines.

  • 5) Starts conveyors to transport mixed chemicals and lime to reactor tanks that make reagent solution.

  • 6) Observes control panel, records readings, and calculates solution temperatures, scrubber fan loads, and flow of treatment solutions, using charts and graphs.

  • 7) Changes basket screens in reactor tanks, using chain hoist, and cleans screens with water or steam.

  • 8) Collects samples of treatment solutions and sludge for laboratory analysis.

  • 9) Measures acidity or alkalinity of clarifier overflow to determine efficiency of impurity recovery, using pH meter.

 

 

 


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DOT:   551.485-010

Job Number: 11879