Glossary
Separating Machine Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential separating machine operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key separating machine operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in separating machine operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Centrifuge
- Spins to separate.
- Clarification
- Removing haze.
- DCS
- Distributed control system.
- Differential pressure
- Pressure across a filter.
- Distillation
- Separating by boiling point.
- Evaporator
- Concentrates liquids.
- Feed rate
- Input speed.
- Filter cake
- Solids left on a filter.
- Filtration
- Separating solids from liquids.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation.
- P&ID
- Piping and instrumentation diagram.
- Purity
- Product quality.
- Reflux
- Returned condensate.
- Rounds
- Scheduled equipment checks.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
Practice these terms
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