Funded Projects

Government Funded Projects

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

2. 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.

3. Lead PI- “Integrated hydrodynamic cavitation - membrane distillation technology for enhanced water recovery from industrial effluent” (2020-2022). Funder: DST Technology Mission Division (Energy & Water)'s call for Optimal Water Use in Industrial Sector – 21.00 Lakhs INR.

4. Lead PI- “Tuning the Performance of Thin-Film Composite Membranes on Electrospun Support for Engineered Osmosis in water remediation” (2019-2021). Funder: MHRD-SPARC–– 44.00 Lakhs INR. International Collaborators: Prof. Upal Ghosh (UMBC, USA) and Prof. Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran (UTS, Australia).

Institute Funded Projects

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

6. 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.

7. 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.