Complete passes, theoretical equilibrium stages and weighted averages across routed streams are different quantities.
A clearly defined count can communicate a useful fact, but it does not rank flavor quality or establish legal identity.
A tray models contact within equipment; a full pass describes movement through a process; a fractional routing average summarizes streams that may have different histories. A flow diagram makes distinctions visible that a single marketing number hides.
Original synthesis from full-source Batch Distillation review; concept-level duplicate searches performed. Developing, not an independently validated operating procedure.
Atomic Idea
Complete passes, theoretical equilibrium stages and weighted averages across routed streams are different quantities.
Reasoning
A tray models contact within equipment; a full pass describes movement through a process; a fractional routing average summarizes streams that may have different histories. A flow diagram makes distinctions visible that a single marketing number hides.
Boundary
A clearly defined count can communicate a useful fact, but it does not rank flavor quality or establish legal identity.
Evidence And Connections
The linked Literature Notes contain printed and PDF locators, source limitations and the researcher’s interpretation.