Richard Grenville
Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Grenville is an experienced mixing engineer and educator with 14+ years of professional experience and a research career stretching back to a PhD in mechanical engineering focused on non-Newtonian fluid mixing. He combines deep industrial practice—roles at DuPont, SPX FLOW, and Philadelphia Mixing Solutions—with long-standing academic appointments co-teaching senior electives at Rowan, University of Delaware, and Johns Hopkins. His expertise spans agitator and motionless mixer design, reactor optimization via meso-/micro-mixing theory, and troubleshooting plant-scale mixing issues to improve yield, safety, and capital efficiency. Richard has led industry research consortia and confidential single-sponsor projects, translating experimental programs into practical process improvements for paint, pharmaceutical, food and paper sectors. He is notable for bridging rigorous PhD-level research with hands-on pilot and plant work, delivering measurable savings and performance gains across global operations. Based in Wilmington, DE, he remains active in both consulting and teaching, mentoring the next generation of mixing specialists.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemical Engineering at University of NottinghamDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering - Mixing of non-Newtonian Fluids, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering - Mixing of non-Newtonian Fluids at Cranfield University
Github Skills (3)
c1710
c1110
window-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
richardgv/skippy-xd
Apr 2013 - Feb 2015
A full-screen Exposé-style standalone task switcher for X11.
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
full-screenwindowsx11linuxtask-switcher
richardgv/rgv-overlay
Sep 2013 - May 2020
Contributions:185 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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