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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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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