A professional who controls continuous absorption process equipment to remove coloring from sugar beet juice and gas regenerating furnace to reactivate carbon (burn out impurities). Respnsibilities include:

• Starts conveyors and elevators to fill absorption tank with activated carbon.
• Opens valves and starts pumps to force sugar juice through carbon in tank.
• Observes gauges and recorder readings on panelboard and adjusts controls to obtain constant flow of juice through tank.
• Draws sample of juice and observes color for conformance to specifications.
• Diverts flow of juice through standby tank when color of juice does not meet specifications.
• Moves controls on panelboard to admit fuel and air into regenerating furnace, and presses button that automatically ignites fire in furnace.
• Starts conveyors and feeders to convey carbon from tank into furnace that removes impurities in carbon.
• Reads gauges and recorders and adjusts controls to regulate furnace temperature, fuel-air ratio, and feed rate of carbon into furnace.
• Records operating data in station log.