**Meet the editors**

Dr. Omar M. Basha is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He was previously a fellow at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Texas

A&M University at Qatar. His research work focuses on multiphase reactor design and scaleup, computational fluid dynamic modeling and carbon capture and sequestration.

Professor Badie I. Morsi joined the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, in 1982 and currently is Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program. Professor Morsi's research activities involve different aspects of chemical, environmental, and petroleum engineering. His recent research work focuses on the design and scaleup of multiphase reac-

tors, and modeling and optimization of industrial processes with a focus on Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Initiatives 23**

**Steel Surface 37**

Fogassy Elemér

Fogassy Elemér

**Section 1 Pedagogies of Laboratory Unit Operations 1**

Chapter 2 **Experiential Learning via Open-Ended Laboratory**

**Section 2 Application of Experimental Methods in Research 35**

Benjamin Oyegbile and Guven Akdogan

**Diastereomeric Separations 79**

**Diastereomeric Mixtures 99**

Chapter 5 **New Opportunities to Improve the Enantiomeric and**

Chapter 6 **Separation of Chiral Compounds: Enantiomeric and**

Chapter 3 **Kinetics of Growth of Iron Boride Layers on a Low-Carbon**

Enrique Hernández-Sánchez and Julio Cesar Velázquez

Chapter 4 **Hydrodynamic Characterization of Physicochemical Process in Stirred Tanks and Agglomeration Reactors 57**

Emese Pálovics, Szeleczky Zsolt, Szolnoki Beáta, Bosits Miklós and

Emese Pálovics, Szeleczky Zsolt, Szolnoki Beáta, Bosits Miklós and

**Chemical Engineering 3** Brenda Hutton-Prager

Chapter 1 **Utilizing a Differentiation Framework, Piagetian Theories and**

**Bloom's Taxonomy to Foster Experiential Learning Activities in**

Nor Irwin Basir, Zainal Ahmad and Syamsul Rizal Abd Shukor
