Wastewater reuse potential for heavy industry

Brad Buecker is President of Buecker & Associates LLC, specializing in consulting and technical writing/marketing. Most recently, he served as Senior Technical Publicist with ChemTreat Inc. Buecker has more than four decades of experience in or supporting the power and water treatment industries, much of it in steam generation chemistry, cooling water treatment, air quality control, and results engineering positions with City Water, Light & Power (Springfield, Illinois) and Kansas City Power & Light Company’s (now Evergy) La Cygne, Kansas station. His work has also included 11 yr with two engineering firms, Burns & McDonnell and Kiewit, and 2 yr 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 more than 250 articles for various technical trade magazines, and has written three books on power plant chemistry and air pollution control. He is a member of the ACS, AIChE, AIST, ASME, AWT, NACE (now AMPP), the Electric Utility Chemistry Workshop planning committee, the Power-Gen International planning committee, and he is active with the International Water Conference. He may be reached at beakertoo@aol.com.

Rajendra P. Kalakodimi is the Director of Cooling Water for ChemTreat Inc. in Ashland, Virginia. He received an MS degree in physical chemistry at Andhra University and a PhD in electrochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2003. While in India, Dr. Kalakodimi served as the Engineering Technical Leader at the GE India Technology Centre in Bangalore and as Product Manager for Chemicals and Monitoring Solutions for GE Water. He has more than 20 patent filings, 20 international publications and various conference presentations.