Minimizing microbiological and scale deposition on the waterside of water-cooled heat exchangers—Part 1

Brad Buecker serves as Senior Technical Consultant with SAMCO Technologies. He is also the owner of Buecker & Associates LLC, which provides independent technical writing/marketing services. 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) and Kansas City Power & Light Company's (now Evergy) La Cygne, Kansas, station. Additionally, his background includes 11 yrs with two engineering firms, Burns & McDonnell and Kiewit, and he spent 2 yrs 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 300 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, ASME, AWT, CTI, and he is active with Power-Gen International, the Electric Utility & Cogeneration Chemistry Workshop, and the International Water Conference. The author can be reached at bueckerb@samcotech.com and beakertoo@aol.com.