Dr. Sridhar Parthasarathi
Chief Scientist Battery Technology
Dr Sridhar Parthasarathi, Chief Scientist, M/s Mesha Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has more than three decades of experience in Electrochemical Energy Generation and Storage.
He has been working with M/s Mesha Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India since August 2014. Previously, he was working at Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
He set up the facility for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) at CECRI Chennai Unit. He was involved in the development of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane based fuel cell materials, cell, stack and system in various projects funded by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India including private companies.
At Mesha, he is responsible for making the process of manufacturing Hybrid Ultra Capacitors (HUCs) based on the laboratory know-how developed and licensed by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to make it commercial.
This required pruning of the unit operations, identification of indigenously available materials including activated carbon; the main component required in HUCs. Based on the knowledge acquired in the testing and evaluation of HUCs, he worked closely with the battery manufacturers to incorporate the salient features offered by the capacitive nature of the HUC in the regular battery that is in production without any modification to evolve the power battery.
He has guided students for their Ph.D. and M.S. degrees. He has more than 100 publications besides patents; majority of them in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane based fuel cells.
He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry besides member of American Chemical Society, USA, The Electrochemical Society, USA, International Society of Electrochemistry & American Association for Advancement of Science.