Research overview
David's research focuses on the use of thermofluids and nanoengineering for challenges for water treatment and separations processes, especially at the intersection of water, energy, food, and health. This work includes improved process design for water treatment, new membrane materials and coatings, new membrane physics, nanomaterials for disinfection, water vapor removal for harvesting or HVAC, heat and mass transport for separations, and energy efficiency thermodynamics for water treatment. Overview video.

Key Links: Google Scholar, publications, twitter handle: @WarsingerLab, youtube channel, ORCID: 0000-0003-3446-1473

Collaboration

David is an avid collaborator and eagerly works with faculty as well as postdoc's and graduate students.  Ongoing collaborative opportunities include numerous experimental and modeling journal papers related to membrane nanomaterials, review papers on water treatment membranes, and entrepreneurial work. For government grant teams requiring cost share (e.g. DOE, BoR), Purdue is very good about providing cost share compared to peer institutes- our past grant cost share have even exceeded 50%.

Collaborative Capabilities:
The Warsinger Lab has large and small apparatuses for testing membrane technologies, including numerous configurations of membrane distillation and reverse osmosis. The lab has extensive testing for membrane properties such as liquid entry pressure, permeate flux, fouling, membrane porosity (porometer), zeta potential, etc. The lab has a collimated beam for photocatalysis studies, and a system for measuring thermal conductivity of liquids. The lab extensive models for: membrane distillation, multieffect distillation, multistage flash, nanofiltration, batch reverse osmosis, and HVAC membrane processes. The group also has multiphysics reactive models for nanoswimmers, self-pumping membranes, catalysis, and membrane fouling. We also have useful subscriptions that can be shared (e.g. COMSOL with microfluidic and electro-chemistry modules).

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Example research projects