04 / Working demonstrator · September 2026

Distillation Process Demonstrator

A working 3D engineering visualisation built from a published TUM distillation research case and its recorded experimental data.

Process engineering3D visualisationEvidence-led AI

WORKING DEMONSTRATOR · SOURCE-LINKED

49 ASSETS · 63 CONNECTIONSPublished process evidence made explorable.

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PeriodSeptember 2026

RoleResearch synthesis, orchestration and build

Latest audit pass3 hours 55 minutes elapsed

StatusWorking local demonstrator

The question

Can published process evidence become something an engineer can inspect?

The source material describes a two-column n-butanol and water separation process, provides a process diagram and includes recorded operating data. Each source is useful, but understanding how the equipment, streams and measurements relate still requires substantial interpretation.

I used an agent-orchestrated workflow to reconcile the sources, build the apparatus, challenge the first reconstruction and repeatedly test its declared connections, bends, supports and access arrangement. Substantiated conflicts were corrected; details the sources could not settle remain visibly unresolved.

Working evidence

One model, three ways to inspect it.

Overview of the interactive two-column distillation demonstrator — **Apparatus view**Select assets, follow connections and inspect the source basis.

Distillation demonstrator with stairs, platforms and grating highlighted blue — **Access view**Colour makes stairs, platforms and grating easier to review.

Recorded pressure and temperature data displayed beside the distillation model — **Recorded-data view**Elapsed time and current readings move together; the 3D plant is not simulated.

What the view can show

Useful for orientation, traceability and review.

Process connections

Follow ten explanatory paths through two columns, a shared decanter, pumps, heat exchangers and separated utility circuits.

Apparatus arrangement

Orbit the 3D model, inspect 49 selectable assets and reveal supports, stairs, platforms, grating and working-space records.

Recorded experiments

Explore pressure and temperature readings from two published runs using elapsed time, a chart cursor and the original 30-second cadence.

Evidence boundaries

See which details are represented, grouped, omitted or unresolved instead of treating a plausible reconstruction as an as-built plant.

What can be determined

The model helps separate evidence from assumption.

It can show whether represented equipment and connections form a coherent declared topology, where recorded temperature and pressure changed during the supplied experiments, and where the model’s own geometry or access assumptions conflict.

It cannot establish as-built dimensions, structural capacity, hydraulic adequacy, thermal expansion, process safety, code compliance or the operating state of unresolved circuits. Those require verified engineering inputs and discipline review beyond the available sources.

Evidence-linked · human-reviewed

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