DIGESTER OPERATOR

Domain	Definition
Occupations	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 specified 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 digesters. Monitors temperature, flow, and pressure gauges and charts 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 process. Opens valves of stationary 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). (references)
	Feeds equipment that breaks up cakes of dehydrated nitrocellulose to facilitate subsequent mixing and packing processes: Feeds nitrocellulose cakes into hopper of electrically powered cylinder fitted with spikes that break up cakes. Removes nitrocellulose for further processing and packing. May monitor scale to determine when specified amount of smokeless powder is expelled from machine into tub and to turn lever to stop machine. (references)
	Operates digesters in steam distillation process to extract crude turpentine from wood: Regulates flow of steam through digesters. Gives directions to EXTRACTOR-OPERATOR HELPER (chemical) engaged in filling digesters with wood chips and dumping spent wood from digester. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: DIGESTER OPERATOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-i-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-t"
	-4 letters: deteriorates.
	-5 letters: deteriorate, preregister, repertoires, repertories, retrogrades.
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