1) to cover the principles, process parameters and applications of separation processes used for recovery of bioactive compounds from natural food materials and food industry by-products.

2) to integrate knowledge of food chemistry and mass transfer to choose, use or design appropriate separation process for recovery of a specific bioactive compound.

3)  to discuss the advantage or disadvantage of each process in terms of product quality, environmental safety and economic considerations.

4) to critically evaluate the applications of conventional separation processes as solvent and solid phase extractions, and hydrodistillation, against innovative GREEN processes as compressed fluid extractions using GRAS (Generally Recommended as Safe) solvents or extraction enhancing processes.