HDES Service & Engineering is a small engineering company founded in February 2018 but with activities going back to 2011. It is active in advanced energy storage systems, both pneumatic and electrical. The company is currently located within the ESA SBIC centre in Noordwijk. The main technology in the pneumatic field is the Cool Gas Generator technology. With this, HDES builds on the work on CGG Technologies and CGG Safety & Systems that have been active in Cool Gas Generator Development since 2011.
HDES has an experienced technical and management team with vast experience in technology development. The team is complemented with a pool of experts that are available for insourcing. The knowledge is documented in reports, tests results, drawings, design descriptions, plans and procedures. HDES considers its team’s specific skills and knowledge and its documentation as the core of its competencies.
HDES is currently engaged in the product development of two applications for the Cool Gas Generator: an oxygen generator for breathing applications and a CO2 generator for maritime safety applications.
HDES has built up a fully independent infrastructure to design, develop and test Cool Gas Generators. This included the possibility to compute chemical reactions needed to design a propellant and pilot production facilities for grain production. Furthrmore it has analysis and CAD tools to design the CGG and the systems around it and a testfacility with high speed data acquisition to test complete CGG’s.
Our present experience includes:
- Complex technical product development, including testing verification and certification
- Prototype building and testing both in Cool Gas Generators
- Design and development of test structures including instrumentation, control and data acquisition
- Energy storage systems, both electrical as well as chemical and pneumatic
- Electrical systems design, development and testing
- Development of ignition systems that work at very low temperatures
- Modelling and characterization of physical processes
- Corporate strategy and financial management
- Energy and marine market
Projects and activities where HDES personnel has been involved include:
- Product development of Oxygen Cool Gas Generators for breathing apparatus
- Product development of a CO2 generator for maritime safety applications
- Development of Cool Gas Generators for four space missions, which have operated successfully in space onboard the Proba-2, Delfi N3xT, InflateSail and RemoveDebris satellites
- Many business developments and corporate finance projects in technology sectors