Tata Steel’s Dr Debashish Bhattacharjee is to give a free open seminar to Midlands businesses and researchers outlining his vision for steel’s high tech future at a keynote seminar on Thursday 13^th October at WMG, University of Warwick.

Dr Bhattacharjee is Group Director, Research Development and Technology, Tata Steel Group and an Industrial Professor at the University of Warwick. Tata Steel is the world’s second most geographically diversified steel producer.

WMG Chairman Professor Lord Bhattacharyya said. “WMG is delighted to be able to provide this free fantastic opportunity for Midlands business and researchers to gain in crucial insights into the latest innovative steel product and process development underway in one the world’s leading global steel makers.”

Dr Bhattacharjee areas of expertise include fracture and fatigue of materials, physical metallurgy of rolling, and application of artificial neural networks in industry and hi personal technical contribution spans a wide area, from mineral beneficiation, to development of new technology for generating hydrogen at low cost and development of advanced coolants using nanofluids.

Some of the areas he will explore are:

• Customers in the automotive industry are looking to meet the global environmental trends by developing lighter cars with increased crash safety. Tata Steel looks to enable this trend with development of advanced high strength steel that combines high strength with high formability.
• Tata Steel is further looking to increase the sustainability of the steelmaking process by using waste and by-product of processes in an innovative way. As an example, spent thermal energy and spent water from steelmaking processes to produce hydrogen gas. That hydrogen has no carbon footprint and has an excellent potential to be used as a source of energy.
• Tata Steel is working on advanced technology for harvesting solar energy efficiently. They are also developing integrated solutions, such as energy independent houses, which would increase the living standard for the population with minimal output of greenhouse gasses.
• Dr Bhattacharjee will also show an ultra-cost effective solution for removal of hexavalent chromium implemented for chromite ores.

Dr Bhattacharjee says: “Contrary to common perception, high tech solutions need not be expensive. The key to innovation lies in the ability to think outside the box.”

The seminar is free and takes place in WMG’s International Digital Laboratory at 12noon.

To reserve your place please contact Georgina Haslop on (024) 765 73094

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Dr Bhattacharjee is currently the Group Director, Research Development and Technology, Tata Steel Group, stationed at the IJmuiden in the Netherlands, from where he leads the transformation of the research of Tata Steel Europe (earlier Corus RD&T) and Tata Steel India & Asia (Jamshedpur) into a global Tata Steel Research organisation. He did his BTech from Jadavpur University, MTech from IIT Kanpur and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. He has also carried out post doctoral research at the Rolls Royce University Technology Centre in Cambridge and at the University of Birmingham.

His areas of expertise include fracture and fatigue of materials, physical metallurgy of rolling, and application of artificial neural networks in industry. His personal technical contribution spans a wider area, from mineral beneficiation, to development of new technology for generating hydrogen at low cost and development of advanced coolants using nanofluids.

He was awarded the Metallurgist of the Year award by the Govt of India in 2004. In 2008 his contribution to engineering was nationally recognised through Fellowship of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE). Dr Bhattacharjee has more than 45 peer reviewed international publications and has filed 20 patents. He has been Chairman of the Jamshedpur chapters of Indian Institute of Metals, Indian Institute of Mineral Engineers and the Indian Institute of Welding.