Brad Buecker is president of Buecker & Associates LLC consulting and technical writing/marketing. Most recently he served as a senior technical publicist with ChemTreat Inc. He 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 and Power (Springfield, Illinois) and Kansas City Power and Light Company's (now Evergy) La Cygne, Kansas station. His work has also included 11 years with two engineering firms, Burns and McDonnell and Kiewit, and he spent two years as acting water/wastewater supervisor at a chemical plant. Buecker has a B.S. in chemistry from Iowa State University with additional course work in fluid mechanics, energy and materials balances and advanced inorganic chemistry. He has written and co-authored more than 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.