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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine production requirements for chemical recovery
   • Determine processing rates for production and communicate to relevant personnel
   • Determine availability of incoming supplies to meet production requirements
   • Confirm readiness and availability of facilities to receive process product and/or by-products
2. Inspect and prepare systems for startup
   • Complete pre-startup checks in line with work health and safety (WHS) regulations, environmental and safe working requirements/practices.
   • Identify and deal with hazards according to safe workplace procedures
   • Confirm operational settings against specification requirements
   • Set delivery systems for operation according to standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   • Check monitoring devices and systems and confirm as operational
   • Rectify faults that have been identified
   • Confirm production ready status with relevant personnel
3. Start up operations
   • Activate systems and confirm as operational
   • Co-ordinate equipment startups for production
   • Communicate process operation to relevant personnel
   • Record production startup details as required
4. Establish and stabilise the production and quality processes
   • Monitor and adjust chemical recovery systems to rectify variations from specifications
   • Take samples as required and action appropriately
   • Verify product tests as within specification where applicable
   • Record system operation, production and quality data as required

Range Statement

Not Applicable

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Performance Evidence

A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, and must be able to provide evidence that they can:

prepare and start up chemical recovery processes, at least twice in line with required enterprise intervals, which requires the ability to:

conduct checks to ensure availability of incoming supplies

remove isolations to activate startup

conduct pre-startup checks of plant and equipment including instrumentation

conduct checks to ensure readiness and availability of facilities to receive process product and/or by-products

determine chemical recovery requirements (temperatures, oxidation, combustion and evaporation rates) for operation

input operational settings (set points) in preparation for startup in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

activate and confirm operation of chemical recovery system according to SOP

make process control adjustments to stabilise production and quality

take samples of product, conduct tests, interpret and record results to regulate product consistency and quality

during the startup process, demonstrate safe use for different types of chemicals

use electronic and other control systems to control equipment and processes.

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Knowledge Evidence

A person competent in this unit must be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

relationships within the chemical recovery area members and with the area's suppliers and customers

cause and effects of operational equipment faults

working knowledge of chemical recovery operations, processes, layout and associated services sufficient to carry out startup activities

control points of the preparation for startup procedure

control points of the startup procedure

purpose of the process controls and how the changes affect the operation's variables

purpose of each of the steps in the preparation of the chemical recovery system for production

sampling and testing process for plant and system operations, and process monitoring - purpose, standards and procedures as per site agreements.

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