Intelligent and Sustainable Cement Production: Transforming to Industry 4.0 Standards (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367618438)

Anjan Kumar Chatterjee is a Materials Scientist and has spent almost five decades in the cement and concrete industry as a research Scientist and a corporate executive. He holds a doctorate degree from the Moscow State University, Russia, based on his research studies on electro-re-melting slags at the Baikov Institute of Metallurgy in Moscow. He also carried out research work at the Building Research Establishment in the United Kingdom. His professional activities encompassed the cement manufacturing process, blended and special-purpose cements, refractory products, ready-mixed concrete production, cement and concrete materials science and chemistry. He is an alumnus of Presidency College (now a university) in Kolkata.

Dr. Chatterjee started his career as a faculty member of the Materials Science Center of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and later moved to Cement Research Institute of India (now National Council of Cement and Building Materials), New Delhi, and then to Associated Cement Companies Limited (now ACC Limited), Mumbai, from where he retired as its Whole-time Executive Director. During his tenure in ACC, he was responsible for the company's R & D, new cement projects, and all diversified business activities. In the post-retirement period, he has been engaged in providing technical support services to the cement, concrete and mineral industries in India and abroad in various capacities. In addition, Dr. Chatterjee has been on various international assignments with UNIDO and other organizations. He continues to be the Chairman of Conmat Technologies Private Limited, a service-oriented outfit, in Kolkata.

Dr. Chatterjee is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian Concrete Institute, and Indian Ceramic Institute. He is on the editorial boards of international journals such as 'Cement and Concrete Research' and 'Cement Wapno Beton'. He has continued to be a member of the steering committee of International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement for the last four decades. He has been conferred lifetime achievement awards by the Indian Concrete Institute, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers, Confederation of Indian Industries, and Cement Manufacturers Association of India. Amongst his numerous publications the most note-worthy is the book on 'Cement Production Technology: Principles and Practice', published by the CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group. He has many awards to his credit.