Buecker, B.

Brad Buecker is President of Buecker & Associates LLC, and specializes in consulting and technical writing/marketing. Most recently, he served as a Senior Technical Publicist with ChemTreat Inc. Buecker has many years of experience in or supporting the power industry, much of it in steam generation chemistry, water treatment, air quality control, and results engineering positions with City Water, Light & Power (Springfield, Illinois, U.S.) and at the Kansas City Power & Light Company's (now Evergy) La Cygne, Kansas (U.S.) station. His work has also included 11 years with two engineering firms, Burns & McDonnell and Kiewit, and he spent two years as acting Water/wastewater Supervisor at a chemical plant. Buecker earned a BS degree in chemistry from Iowa State University with additional course work in fluid mechanics, energy and materials balances, and advanced inorganic chemistry. He has authored or co-authored > 250 articles for various technical trade magazines, and he has written three books on power plant chemistry and air pollution control. He is a member of the ACS, AIChE, AIST, ASME, AWT, CTI, the Electric Utility Chemistry Workshop planning committee, and is active with the International Water Conference and Power-Gen International.