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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Flue Gas Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Flue Gas Analyst” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Flue Gas Analyst” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

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  • Velometers
  • Distilling condensers
  • McLeod gauges
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Automatic burets
  • Graphing calculators
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Infrared lamps
  • Reflux condensers
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Homogenizers
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Photo detectors
  • Immersion heaters
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Ammeters
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Buchner funnels
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Sample crushers
  • Hot air blowers
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Bunsen burners
  • Metering pumps
  • Dessicators
  • Flame photometers
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Glass tubing
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Mercury barometers
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Desktop computers
  • Test tube clamps
  • Torsion balances
  • Polarizers
  • Safety glasses
  • Rotameters
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Autotitrators
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Dye lasers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • pH indicators
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Coulometers
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Lyophilizers
  • Ball mills
  • Prisms
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Pycnometers
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Westphal balances
  • Heating mantles
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Reaction flasks
  • Single-pan balances
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Mainframe computers
  • Multimeters
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Pull spring balances
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Glass burets
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Lecture bottles
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Hydrometers
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Pirani gauges
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Viscosity meters
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Fluorimeters
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Monochromators
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Laboratory balances
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Ionization gauges
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Utility clamps
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Molecular stills
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Meker burners
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • U-tube manometers
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Bell jars
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Personal computers
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Photocells
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Cork borer sets
  • Filter pumps
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Tension gauges
  • Pressure gauges
  • Gas burners
  • Triple beam balances
  • Differential refractometers
  • Thermocouples
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Refrigerated coolers
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  • Laminar flow burners
  • Nebulizers
  • Polarimeters
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  • Capillary tubing
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
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  • Claisen flasks
  • Safety showers
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  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Turbidimeters
  • Safety goggles
  • Lasers
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Comparators
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Safety gloves
  • Water aspirators
  • Radiation detectors
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Cooling baths
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Rheometers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Drying pistols
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Finger pumps
  • Steam baths
  • Titrators

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