The phrase "as an individual unit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is considered separately or distinctly from a group or collection.
Example: "Each component of the system must be tested as an individual unit to ensure overall functionality."
Alternatives: "as a separate entity" or "as a distinct unit".
If you decide to space the pickets out, consider the picket width and space as an individual unit.
This article discusses the cell both as an individual unit and as a contributing part of a larger organism.
From the outside, they present sleek bars of continuous glazing, like the top of Tate Modern (formerly Bankside Power Station, also by Gilbert Scott); on their inner faces, the mass is broken down, each dwelling articulated as an individual unit.
Financially, you get the most from your capital equipment and labor by treating each airplane and each pilot as an individual unit and then using an algorithm to maximize their utilization.
As an individual unit, the cell is capable of metabolizing its own nutrients, synthesizing many types of molecules, providing its own energy, and replicating itself in order to produce succeeding generations.
Using workers as an individual unit of computation and feeding them individual tasks using a cloud based queue works well as it is easy to scale-out.
In an age of trillion-dollar debt and billion-dollar bank bailouts, America's lowest common denomination seems to bear little value as an individual monetary unit.
b) Each uplink rtPS/ErtPS connection is taken as an individual BR unit (BRU) because of the stringent delay requirement, while all uplink nrtPS or BE connections in the same SS are aggregated as a BRU to reduce the signaling overhead for unicast polling.
Therefore, each animal was analyzed as an individual experimental unit.
Dogs were enroled as an individual experimental unit and independent of other dogs.
Each eye was considered as an individual statistical unit, which made it possible to evaluate true positive, false positive, true negative and false negative results from the data available.
