"separate component" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about distinct components, elements, or parts of something that make up a whole. For example, "Each component of the project was a separate component and needed to be completed individually."
Or should rural development projects have a separate component to promote gender dialogue?
You will be able to record programs, but if you are serious about specifying how it is done, you will want a separate component.
It contains what Carney described as a "separate" component dedicated to dealing with issues relating to "some of the very specific things with regard to intelligence gathered, including matters that deal with heads of states and other governments".
A separate component in the survey estimates that 859,000 crimes were suffered by children aged 10 to 15 last year, down from more than 1m in 2009-10.
Behind their show of unity about Iran's clandestine efforts to manufacture nuclear fuel, however, is a continuing debate among American, European and Israeli spies about a separate component of Iran's nuclear program: its clandestine efforts to design a nuclear warhead.
A typical thermonuclear warhead may be constructed according to a two-stage design, featuring a fission or boosted-fission primary (also called the trigger) and a physically separate component called the secondary.
Knowledge representation deals primarily with the representational and reasoning challenges of this separate component.
The beam is modelled as four separate component segments, each analyzed as an Euler beam.
Interfacial chain segments are also present, but not detected as a separate component.
It's better to go buy separate component cables rather than using the composite cables that come with the console.
Plato does nothing to encourage the reader to view these works as a distinctive and separate component of his thinking.
