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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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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