John R. Richards, Ph.D., P.E.

Contact me by:

Phone at (302) 695-4059
Email at johninde@hotmail.com

Academic Background

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Delaware, 1994
Master of Science, School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Cornell University, 1978
Bachelor of Science with Highest Honors, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1976
Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, Department of Psychology, Rutgers College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1976

Research Interests

Membership in Professional Societies

Voting Member, Working Party for Polymer Reaction Engineering, 1997
Registered Professional Engineer #6102, Delaware Association of Professional Engineers, 1982
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1980
Cornell Society of Engineers, 1978
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1974

Honors and Awards

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, 2003
Engineering Excellence Award, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 2000
DuPont Volunteer Recognition Award, 1999
Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1996, 2005
Engineering Excellence Award, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1996
Engineering Excellence Award, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1994
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1994
University of Delaware Competitive Fellowship, 1990
Standard Oil Company of California Fellowship, 1976
James J. Slade Scholar, 1976
Henry Rutgers Scholar, 1976
Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society, 1975
Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology, 1975
J. Arent Van Der Poel Science Scholarship, 1974

Outside DuPont ...

Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Delaware
Instructor, Professional Engineering (PE) Review Course in Chemical Engineering, and Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Review Course, Engineering Outreach, College of Engineering, University of Delaware
Educational Associate, Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory
2000-2003, Coach, Science Olympiad, St. Mark's High School
1991-2003, Committee member, Troop 29, Boy Scouts of America, Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church
1985-2002, Organist, St. John the Beloved Church
Hiking, camping, rafting, and sailing around Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York
Married to Jean Richards, son Daniel Joseph, daughter Kathleen Mary and Belle.
We also sponsor Lorishu Letwampa in Kenya, Africa through Christian Children's Fund.

My resume is available on request.

Some Publications

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, “Monitoring and Control of Polymerization Processes”, Session at AIChE Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 12-17 (2006).

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, “Measurement and Control of Polymerization Reactors”, Seminar at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London, September 27, 2006.

Richards, J. R., J. P. Congalidis, and K. W. Leffew, “Innovative Polymer Product and Process Development at DuPont”, Seminar at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London, September 27, 2006.

Richards, J. R., and J. P. Congalidis, “Measurement and Control of Polymerization Reactors,” Computers & Chemical Engineering, 30, 1447 (2006).

Richards, J. R., S. T. Lopina, and M. R. Lindeburg, Chemical Discipline-Specific Review for the FE/EIT Exam, 2^nd Ed., Professional Publications, Inc., Belmont, California (2006).

Richards, J. R., and J. P. Congalidis, “Measurement and Control of Polymerization Reactors,” Chemical Process Control – CPC 7, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, January 8 – 13, 2006.

Snyder, H. L., J. P. Congalidis, and J. R. Richards, Forward to Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: in Polymer Reaction Engineering, M. F. Kemmere, T. Meyer (eds.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, p. V (2005).

Grady, M. C., G. A. Kalfas, J. R. Richards, J. P. Congalidis, M. Soroush, F. Rantow, R. A. Hutchinson, and D. Li, “Higher temperature free-radical acrylic polymerization – a more complete model of acrylate and methacrylate co-polymerization”, 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE 2005), Glasgow, Scotland, July 10-14, 2005

Richards, J. R., J. P. Congalidis, “Measurement and Control of Polymerization Reactors”, Chapter 12 in Handbook of Polymer Reaction Engineering, T. Meyer and J. Keurentjes (eds.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 595 (2005).

Baltsas, A., S. Papadopoulos, C. Kiparissides, J. P. Congalidis, J. R. Richards, M. B. Kelly and Y. Ye, “Mathematical Modeling of Free-Radical Ethylene Copolymerization in High-Pressure Tubular Reactors”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 44, 2592 (2005) (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format).

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, “Monitoring and Control of Polymerization Processes”, Session at AIChE Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 7-12 (2004).

Kiparissides, C., A. Baltsas, J. P. Congalidis, J. R. Richards, M. B. Kelly, and Y. Ye, “Mathematical Modeling of LDPE Copolymers in High-Pressure Tubular Reactors”, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 16-21, 2003.

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, “Process Control of Polymerization Reactors: An Industrial Perspective”, Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Departmental Seminar, October 29, 2003.

Nakamura, C. E., "Production of 1,3 propanediol by E. coli", Metabolic Engineering IV: Applied Systems Biology, Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, ITALY, October 6-11, 2002.

Christie, D. I., Gilbert, R. G., J. P. Congalidis, J. R. Richards, and J. H. McMinn, "Spontaneous polymerization in the emulsion polymerization of styrene and chlorobutadiene," Macromolecules, 34, 5158 (2001). (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format)

Richards, J. R., and J. P. Congalidis, “Mathematical modeling of emulsion polymerization reactors: Molecular weight and branching distributions,” 3rd IUPAC Sponsored International Symposium On Free Radical Polymerization: Kinetics And Mechanism, Il Ciocco (Lucca), Italy, June 3-9, 2001.

Ramkrishna, D., et al., "Metabolic Engineering, Optimization and Control of Ethanol Production in Escherichia coli," NSF GOALI project Award 961, October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2003.

Richards, J. R., and J. P. Congalidis, "Modeling and control of emulsion polymerization reactors: an industrial viewpoint," MARM2000: Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society, Newark, DE, May 15, 2000.

Tyner, D., M. Soroush, M. C. Grady, J. R. Richards, and J. P. Congalidis, "Mathematical modeling and optimization of a semi-batch polymerization reactor," Poster at ADCHEM 2000, International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, Pisa, Italy, June 14-16, 2000. (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format)

Asua, J., J. P. Congalidis, and J. R. Richards, "Control and Monitoring of Polymerization Processes", Session in Polymer Reaction Engineering IV, Palm Coast, FL, March 19-24, 2000.

R. G. Gilbert, D. I. Christie, J. P. Congalidis, and J. R. Richards, "Spontaneous (thermal) initiation in emulsion polymerization," Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng., American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, 80, 541 (1999).

Richards, J. R., and J. P. Congalidis, "Process Control of Polymerization Reactors: An Industrial Perspective," Dynamics and Control Seminar Series, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware (1999). (MS POWERPOINT format)

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, "Process Control of Polymerization Reactors," Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique et Electronique (ESCPE), Lyon, France, December (1998).

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, "Process Control of Polymerization Reactors: An Industrial Perspective," Polymer Reaction Engineering, 6(2), 71 (1998).

Coward, A. V., Y. Y. Renardy, M. Renardy, and J. R. Richards, "Temporal evolution of periodic disturbances in two-layer Couette flow," Journal of Computational Physics., 132, 346 (1997).

Richards, J. R., and J. P. Congalidis, "Mathematical Modeling of Emulsion Polymerization Reactors: An Industrial Perspective," First European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-1), Florence, Italy, May 4-7 (1997). (MS POWERPOINT format)

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, "Process Control of Polymerization Processes: An Industrial Perspective," Engineering Foundation Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering, Palm Coast, FL (1997). (MS WORD format)

Congalidis, J. P. and J. R. Richards, "Process Control of Polymerization Reactors: an Industrial Perspective, " 20^th Meeting of the Foundation of Emulsion Polymerization (SEP), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November (1997).

Christie, D. I., R. G. Gilbert, J. P. Congalidis, J. R. Richards, and J. H. McMinn, "Measurement of transfer constants to predict emulsion polymerization kinetics," DECHEMA Monographs, 131, 513 (1995).

Hutchinson, R. A., J. R. Richards, and M. T. Aronson, "Determination of propagation rate coefficients by pulsed-laser polymerization for systems with rapid chain growth: Vinyl acetate," Macromolecules, 27(16), 4530 (1994).

Richards, J. R., A. N. Beris, and A. M. Lenhoff, "Drop formation in liquid-liquid systems before and after jetting," Physics of Fluids, 7(11), 2617 (1995). (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format)

Richards, J. R., A. M. Lenhoff, and A. N. Beris, "Dynamic breakup of liquid-liquid jets," Physics of Fluids, 6(8), 2640 (1994). (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format)

Richards, J. R., A. N. Beris, and A. M. Lenhoff, "Steady laminar flow of liquid-liquid jets at high Reynolds numbers," Physics of Fluids A, 5(7), 1703 (1993). (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format)

Richards, J. R., Fluid mechanics of liquid-liquid systems, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (1994).

Congalidis, J. P., J. R. Richards, and W. H. Ray, “Feedforward and feedback control of a solution copolymerization reactor,” AIChE J., 35(6), 891 (1989). Errata, as of November 6, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format).