Simon Earland has been involved in the thermal and mechanical design of heat transfer equipment, including reformers, fired heaters and shell and tube heat exchangers, since the early 1970s. He worked for engineering contractors Humphreys & Glasgow, Badger and Procon, before moving to Shell Expro in 1983. He joined Finglow as a director in 1986 and worked on the development of computer software for the mechanical design of pressure vessels and heat exchangers to various design codes. In 1994 he set up his own consultancy business providing mechanical design services for a number of fabricators.
Simon has been a member of the management committee of the Heat Transfer Society since 1980 and has served as Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer at various times. He is the Consultant on pressure vessels to the British Standards Institution and serves on the PVE/1 and PVE/1/15 committees for PD 5500. He also serves on the CEN/TC 54 committee for the European pressure vessel standard EN 13445 and is convenor of working group 7 (titanium) and a member of working group 53 (design methods). He is a member of the Pressure Systems Group Board at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Simon also works with Professor David Nash from the University of Strathclyde, developing and presenting training courses on pressure vessel design.
