Research Funding

2011:

 

• Received Discovery Research Grant (Individual) on "Advanced Reaction and Process Engineering for Applications in Energy, Environment, Food and Health" for $70,000 per year for 5 years in 2011 for a total of $350,000.
• Received NSERC RTI Research Grant on "Purification and Refolding of Inclusion Body Proteins using SMB Technology" for $110,950 in 2011. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received MITACS Accelerate Ontario Research Grant on “Efficiency Analysis of UV Irradiated AOP using Computational Modeling” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$30,000 in 2011. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received MITACS Accelerate Ontario Research Grant on “Understanding UV Dose Distribution and Reactor Performance using Bioassay Data” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$45,000 in 2011. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received MITACS Accelerate Ontario Research Grant on “Contaminant Treatment in Water using Photocatalysis” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$30,000 in 2011. I am the Principal Investigator.



2010:



• Received MITACS Accelerate Ontario Research Grant on “Lagrangian Actinometry for UV Disinfection Applications involving Low Transmittance Liquids” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$15,000 in 2010. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received MITACS Accelerate Cluster Research Grant on “Program to Advance the Treatment of Opaque Fluids using UV Technologies” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$160,000 in 2010 for 2 years. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received MITACS Accelerate Research Grant on “Photocatalytic Treatment of Contaminants in Water” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$45,000 in 2010 for 2 years. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received MITACS Accelerate Research Grant on “Modeling Microbial Transport and Inactivation in an Open Channel UV Reactor at Various Hydraulic Regimes” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$90,000 in 2010 for 2 years. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received NSERC Strategic Research Grant on "New Directions and Challenges in Large Scale Integrated Micro-algal Technologies for the Canadian Farm Economy" for $250,000 for 2 years. I am the Co-Principal Investigator.
• Received Ontario Center of Excellence (OCE) Research Grant on "Nanomaterials for Photocatalysis: Enhancing Hydrogen Production from Solar Energy" for $1,313,480. I am the Co-Principal Investigator. Our contribution is 40% of the total amount.



2009:



• Received Singapore NRF-EWI Grant on "Full and Direct Sunlight Driven Photocatalytic Oxidation Technology for Effective and Low Cost Decontamination of Aqueous Organic Pollutants", S$750,000 in 2009. I am collaborator of the project.
• Received MITACS Accelerate Ontario Research Grant on “Enhanced UV treatment of fluids through fluid instabilities” co-sponsored by Trojan Technologies for C$45,000 in 2009. I am the Principal Investigator.
• Received NSERC-CRD on "Biomass gassification: product quantification and reaction kinetics" for C$272,000 in 2009 for 3 years. I am the Co-Principal Investigator.



2008:



• Received NSERC Strategic Special Projects Grant as Co-PI
  Project Title: Innovations in Renewable Energy Production: Biodiesel from Microalgae
  Total Project Funding: $199,400
 


2007:

 

• Received NSERC Strategic Grant as Co-PI
  Project Title: Development of a reliable, efficient and economic chiral drug separation process.
  Total Project Funding: $202,600
 

• Received NSERC Strategic Grant as Co-PI
  Project Title: TiO2 nanotube arrays synthesis, bandgap engineering and solar energy applications.
  Total Project Funding: $144,000
 

• Received Ontario Research Fund (ORF) as PI
  Project title: Novel Photocatalysis and SMB Technology Laboratory”
  Total Project Funding: $639,756 (ORF Contribution $255,902)
 

• Received “Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Pilot Project" Fund
  Commonwealth Africa Graduate Students Exchange
  Project Title: Water Treatment by Photocatalysis
  Total Project Funding: $10,000. 
 


2006:

 

• Received Canada Foundation for Innovation Leading Edge Fund (CFI-LEF) as Co-PI  Project title “Green Energy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Technologies"
  Total Project Funding: $18,036,200 (CFI Contribution $7,214,480)
 

• Received Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund (CFI-LOF) as PI
  Project title: Novel Photocatalysis and SMB Technology Laboratory”
  Total Project Funding: $639,756  (CFI Contribution $255,902)
 

• Received NSERC Discovery Fund as PI
  Project title “Applications of Multiobjective optimization in the design of SMB systems”
  Total Project Funding: $122,500
 

• Received NSERC Research Tools and Instrumentation (RTI) Fund as PI.
  Project title “Design and development of SMB systems for drug separation”
  Total Project Funding: $85,000
 

• Received Academic Development Fund (ADF )Major Grants as PI.
  Project title: “Development of SMB systems for Chiral drug separation”
  Total Project Funding: $65,000
 


2005:

 

• Received Western Engineering (WE) Start-up Grant as PI.
  Total Project Funding: $64,000
 

• Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as Co-PI
  Project Title: Advanced systems engineering for the pharmaceutical industry
  Project Funding: $150,000
 

• Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as PI
  Project Title: Band-engineered photocatalysis for water purification
  Project Funding: $50,000
 


2004:

 

• Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as PI
  Project Title: Optimal Design of Varicol Process for Chiral Drug Separation
  Project Funding: $150,000
 


2003:

 

• Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as PI
  Project Title: Synthesis of organic esters in simulated countercurrent moving bed chromatographic reactor
  Project Funding: $80,000
 


2002:

 

• Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as PI
  Project Title: Water purification by semiconductor photocatalysis
  Project Funding: $50,000
 


2000:

 

• >Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as PI
  Project Title: Simulated countercurrent moving bed chromatographic reactor
  Project Funding: $150,000
 


1998:

 

• Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as PI
  Project Title: Modeling and dynamic optimization of industrial reactors
  Project Funding: $50,000
 


1997:

 

• Received from Environmental Technology Enterprise, Singapore (ETI) as PI
  Project Title: Water purification by semiconductor photocatalysis
  Project Funding: $150,000
 


1996:

 

• Received from Research Institute of Innovative  Technology for the Earth (RITE, Japan) as PI
  Project Title: Development of photocatalytic reactor for destruction of toxic water pollutants by advanced oxidation process
  Project Funding: ¥ 5,000,650
 

• Received from Academic Research Council of National University of Singapore (NUS) as PI
  Project Title: Photocatalytic oxidation of polluted industrial effluents
  Project Funding: $180,000
 


1993:

 

• Received from European Commission as PI
  Project Title: High Intensity Photocatalytic Reactor (HIPHOCAR) Development
  Project Funding: 750,000 ECU

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