Dipak Sen Chaudhuri

Dipak has a PhD in Chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and has been associated with the ‘energy storage industry’ for more than 40 years. His initial training started with the then ‘Chloride Group’, Manchester, UK, where he developed various motive power batteries, including those for the propulsion of ‘Submarines’ used today by Indian Navy amongst others across the globe. Since then he has worked in close cooperation with specialists from the erstwhile Shin Kobe Battery – a part of the Hitachi Group, Japan and R&D teams of East Penn Manufacturing, USA. He has been a part of the emergence of his company Exide Industries Limited from a level of annual business of $ 40 million in the eighties to close to $ 2.0 Billion in the last financial year. His current research interests include Bipolars, Ultra technology and ‘BMS’. Also, in the upcoming involvements of his company in lithium and other chemistry space. He is also a regular contributor to the quarterly journal; ‘Battery & Energy Storage’ – BEST magazine published from UK Dipak is currently VP, R&D of company Exide Industries Limited, India.