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Great Southern Group:  Company Profile

Great Southern Group is an engineering services company and heater fabricator founded in November, 2005 by William C. Gibson and
Robert L. Gibson.
 
Great Southern Group is dedicated to partnering with major end user/owners in the United States and Canada to design new heaters and to solve problems with existing heaters.  In a broader context, the business plan of Great Southern Group includes not only engineering services, but also consulting and research and development.  Our areas of expertise include heat transfer, fluid flow, combustion, emissions, and black oil processing including crude, vacuum, visbreaking, and delayed coking. 
 
In this very active heater market, Great Southern Group is dedicated to providing the highest level of heater expertise for your new or retrofit projects.  With dozens of mega heater projects in the US and abroad, very important but smaller new or retrofit heater projects will not receive the attention and expertise they deserve.  Great Southern Group can provide end users with heater designs that meet the process requirements, your company standards and specifications, and industry standards.  Even more important, Great Southern Group can assure you that the heater design incorporates the latest in fired heater design and evaluation to extend run lengths, reduce emissions, and increase efficiency.
 
With the growth of our engineering staff during 2008, Great Southern Technologies is now manufacturing retrofit and revamp projects and Great Southern Flameless is now designing and fabricating conventional double fired heaters (retrofit or new) that can be operated in the conventional or flameless mode.  When operating in the conventional mode with air preheat, the heater efficiency exceeds 91% (LHV) and the NOx is below 40 ppmvd.  When operating in the flameless mode with air preheat, the heater efficiency exceeds 91% (LHV) and the NOx is below 8 ppmvd (for all refinery fuel gases – without an SCR).  Click on our Great Southern Flameless tab for more details.

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