CCONCLUSIONS

We have demonstrated that simple mathematical software, MATLAB, can be integrated

into a
separations course as a useful and effective teaching
aid for visualization and numerical computation of
many separation processes. The benefits of using
MATLAB are the following:
� Step-by-step and interactive display can make
conventional graphical approaches more enjoyable to students and more effective in
classroom.
Visualization of the graphical methods has been
further extended to the study of packed-column
analysis.
� By spending less time on the details of solving
problems graphically and by trial-and-error,
we were able to spend more time discussing the
conceptual and quantitative description of processes, and incorporate recent trends
and design
aspects in the separations course.
� User-friendly routines of MATLAB can be used
to solve systems of non