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Robert E. Bucher
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| Title: |
Consultant |
| Industry: |
Chemicals/Coatings |
| Type of Organization: |
Engineering Firm |
| Major Product/Service: |
Process and environmental measurement systems |
| Expertise: |
Mr. Bucher had over 40 years experience serving as a Project and Process Engineer and a Process Application Engineer as well as a Consultant. He specialized in process composition real-time measurement systems, capital projects, writing specifications and process composition, cost estimates, applications, providing on-site surveys of existing analyzers, analyzing start-ups and customer inspections. He also acted as an intermediary between customers and vendors. He recently retired from E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company after 42 years of service as a Consultant in DuPont Engineering Technology (DuET). |
| Geographic Area of Distribution: |
International |
| Affiliations: |
Senior Member, Instrument Society of America, serving as Session Developer, Paper Author and Member of the Wilmington Division |
| University/Degree: |
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1967 |
| Born: |
March 23, Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| Hobbies/Sports: |
Scuba diving, skiing, hunting, ocean fishing, photography; Supporting 2 children through Compassion International, Methodist Church, Stephen Ministry |
| Spouse: |
Gale Bucher |
| Children: |
Barbara Bucher, Alison Bucher, Robert Bucher, III |
| Work History: |
Mr. Bucher began his career as a plant Process Engineer in textile fibers in 1967. He became a Project Engineer in 1969, providing equipment installation design at the textile fiber's Christina Lab R&D facility. In 1971, he was a Process Engineer in the KevlarŪ Process Development Facility at the Richmond, Virginia Textile Fiber's Plant. He also served as a Process Engineer in 1974, with the DuPont Instrument Products Company that manufactured UV/Visible Photometric Process Analyzers. His experience included specifying design parameters for spectrophotometers to measure concentration of specific compounds, then designing sample systems for integrating the spectrophotometers to the process. This provided a complete measurement system for the customer. Mr. Bucher also provided measurement systems for EPA Emission Monitoring, process control and safe environments (toxic or explosive). In 1986, he became a Consultant in the DuPont Engineering Services Division that later became DuPont Engineering Technology and provided Process Measurement Systems for all DuPont businesses. His experience included providing real-time composition measurement systems that included writing specifications, equipment cost estimates, equipment fabrication, customer inspections and plant system startups. |
| Honors & Awards: |
Engineering Gold Excellence Award, for providing environmental systems for five DuPont TiO2 Plants, 1992; Emission Monitoring Award, for completion of multiple-plant EPA Certifications of Continuous Emission Monitoring systems |
| Career Accomplishments: |
Some of Mr. Bucher's career accomplishments were as a major contributor in process analyzer systems for capital projects including analyzer specifications, equipment procurement, analyzer vendor factory acceptance tests, equipment installation and startup. He also provided assistance to plants in analyzer training and identified problems with existing installations and consultation in upgrading or replacing obsolete analyzer systems. He also provided major contributions to startup of the KevlarŪ 2nd market development facility to Richmond, VA and provided data for designing the production plant. |
