Digester Operator
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Operates battery of stationary or rotary steam digesters to
cook wood chips with soda ash or acid to make pulp for use in
manufacture of paper and insulation board: Signals
Digester-Operator Helper (paper & pulp; paper goods) 532.686-010
to charge digesters with specifeid amounts of chips and
chemicals. Turns valves or moves panel controls to admit steam
into digesters, to raise temperature and pressure within
specified limits, and to start rotary digetsers. Monitors
temperature, flow, and pressure gauges and chrats to ensure that
chips are cooked according to specifications. Tests samples of
digester liquid by titration or standard color chart to
determine completion of cooking procses.
Opens valves of
statioanry digester to blow cooked pulp into pit, or pulls lever
to tip rotary digester and dump contents. Compiles production
records. May be designated according to process as Cooker, Soda
(paper & pulp; paper goods); Cooker, Sulfate (paper & pulp;
paper goods); Cooker, Sulfite (paper & pulp; paper goods).
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