HDES Service & Engineering BV is a Dutch Engineering and Technology scale-up company that designs, develops and manufactures Cool Gas Generators for customers in the aerospace, defence, rescue and safety domain. After several years of technology and product development,the company is marketing, selling and producing carbon dioxide and oxygen Cool Gas Generators. Generators for other gasses are in development.
Our Cool Gas generators have important features that limit their ecological footprint and reduce their life cycle costs:
- No toxic propellants are used and no hazardous material will be produced by our products
- Our Cool Gas Generators can be refilled and re-used for at least five times
- Cool Gas Generator are not pressurized and cannot leak and are therefore safe
- Our Cool Gas Generators can be classified outside any hazardous class
- Our Cool Gas Generators do not need any maintenance for several years
Our present flagship product is the MINOS 20 normal liter carbon dioxide Cool Gas Generator which is developed for Space Applications but can also be used for a variety of other applications. The MINOS generator can be used from vacuum to 25 bars of counter pressure and over a large temperature range from 10 to 40 degrees Celsius. It can be equipped with a NASA Standard Initiator (NSI) for the space application as well as an HDES designed low cost igniter for ground test units.
The Minos is delivered with a customized transport box for easy and safe transport and storage.
For fired MINOS generators HDES offers a re-fill service to its customers where the unit is send back, inspected, refurbished and refilled with propellant for the next firing. When re-fill is not possible anymore, the CGG can be decommissioned in a safe and circular way.
HDES Service & Engineering BV is a technical partner of the ESA Business
Incubation Centre Noordwijk.
