what is unit operation?

Answer Posted / faiz khan

Suppose we are synthesizing aspirin in the lab then there are a number of operation we have to perform like mixing, heating, evaporating the solvent or filtering the solid and then drying to get the final product (aspirin). This is a unit process(synthesis of aspirin) in which a number of unit operations are involved.

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