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recovery-unit operator

A professional who operates cracking (recovery) unit of lead pots and condensers to vaporize and condense scrap plastics materials and recover monomer. Respnsibilities include:

  • Unbolts and removes side covers from lead pot, using handtools, and charges it with lead pigs.
  • Adjusts controls of oil burner to melt lead at specified temperature.
  • Sets pressure regulators to supply specified quantity of carbon dioxide to lead pot to eliminate formation of explosive mixture and observes process to detect leaks.
  • Turns screw feed controls to regulate flow of scrap materials into molten lead.
  • Adjusts controls on condensers which automatically recover monomer from solvent and pumps cracked monomer to storage tanks.
  • Dismantles lead pot.
  • Drains lead into molds.
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