There are two possible root causes: poor operation of the coker and poor maintenance. Unfortunately, you'll have to address both to assure that you get rid of the bubbling. Let's consider the operational changes first. For our purposes, a coker unit consists of a furnace, two duplex coker drums, a fractionating column with side-draws and a second stripping column for purifying gas oil; coker naphtha and gas are produced as the lights while light gas oil comes off the stripper.
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