Funded Projects

Government Funded Projects

1. Lead PI- “Decentralized Renewable Energy-Powered Membrane Distillation- Dehumidification for Sustainable Seawater Desalination- Experimental and Modelling Studies” Ministry of Earth Sciences (2026-2028)- 68.00 lakhs INR

2. Lead PI- “Advancing circular economy - developing polymer inclusion membranes (PIMs) for rare earth element recovery from e-waste.” Ministry of Mines (2025-2026)- 10.00 Lakhs INR

3. Lead PI- “Enhanced Water Reclamation using Piezo/Photocatalysis Coupled with Solar-Driven Membrane Distillation” DST Water Technology Initiative- Recommended 2024

4. Project Implementation Group Member- “Sustainable Technologies for Water Recovery and Energy Harvesting” (2021-2025). Funder: DST –FIST, India– 68.00 Lakh INR.

5. Lead PI- “Integrated hydrodynamic cavitation - membrane distillation technology for enhanced water recovery from industrial effluent” (2020-2023). Funder: DST Technology Mission Division (Energy & Water)'s  call for Optimal Water Use in Industrial Sector – 21.00 Lakhs INR- Completed

6. Lead PI- “Tuning the Performance of Thin-Film Composite Membranes on Electrospun Support for Engineered Osmosis in water remediation” (2019-2022). Funder:  MHRD-SPARC–– 44.00 Lakhs INR. International Collaborators:  Prof. Upal Ghosh (UMBC, USA) and Prof. Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran (UTS, Australia)- Completed

7. Lead PI- “Development of Electrospun Membranes with Graded Hydrophobicity for Membrane Distillation” (2019-2021). Funder: Start-up Research Grant, DST-SERB, India - 26.40 Lakhs INR. – Completed

    Institute Funded Projects

8. Lead PI- “Development of Forward Osmosis Membranes for Desalination and Wastewater treatment” (2019-2021). Funder: Faculty Research Grant, NIT Calicut- 5.00 Lakhs INR.

9. Undergraduate Student Innovative Project “Employing Mesoporous Carbon materials to enhance the performance of TFC membranes for Forward Osmosis” (2019), by Ms. Chetana et. al.- 1.80 Lakhs.

10. Undergraduate Student Innovative Project “Development of layered double hydroxide incorporated PEI membranes with enhanced photocatalytic and anti-fouling ability”  (2018), by Mr. Yuvaraj and Mr. Sridhar- 0.77 Lakhs.