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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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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 new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

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