As a result of the course, students should develop skills in the basic fields of separation unit operations of chemical and biological products:

1. Understand the main separation unit operations used in the chemical industry and in the biotechnology;
2. Elaborate the preliminar design of the necessary equipments, in order to ensure the best working conditions to perform, properly, the physical separation unit operations of dissolved products in liquid mixtures and, understand the operational function and the differences between filling columns and plate columns;
3. Scale the suitable equipaments to apply the unit operations of separation processes used in the chemical industry and in the biotecnology, in steady-state;
4. Identify challenges and problems in order to improve operating parameters of separation processes.

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