I would like to start with a little background on bottoms coke to present some clarity on the basis for my answer to this question. Bottoms coke sources could come from multiple places. But to address the question with respect to residence time, our impression was that we are mostly looking at the thermal cracking and decomposition reactions in the main fractionator bottoms as opposed to asphaltene precipitation or reactor transfer line coke generation and carryover.
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