bubble point of mixture
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In distillation operations, the material at the bottom of the tower is a two-component mixture. Since the temperature at the bottom of the tower is below the boiling point of the heavy components, will the vapor of material rising in the distillation tower contain those heavy components?
Of course there will be, isn’t there still a saturated vapor pressure?
There will be reconstituted components, which can be determined through the analysis of the product at the top of the tower
There will be, if there is an azeotrope then it’s inevitable, and even in the absence of an azeotrope, some entrainment will still occur. You need to look at the pressure in the reactor vessel before discussing the boiling point under pressure; it’s useless to just consider the standard boiling point – you also need to take into account the saturated vapor pressure and partial pressures at that vessel pressure.