More than 15 years’ experience in development and engineering
Designers at Huygens Engineers have, on average, more than 15 years’ experience in development and engineering. We operate in various industries including food processing, marine propulsion and offshore / renewables. Sizes of our projects vary a lot, but we have no preference for large or small projects.
Our projects
Huygens Engineers has experience
in a range of industries and applications.
in a range of industries and applications.
Advanced and fine-mechanics
- Design and validation of a high precision 1/12th scale propulsor/measuring-instrument to test flapping propulsion for container-carriers at the MARIN research institute
- Set-up to measure thermal wall-impedance in various interfaces during compression
- Redesign of a wireless transponder to resist cyclical thermal shocks
- Design of a precisely unidirectional force transponder for mass production
- Design of a wireless intermittent pressure sensor for mass production
Components for volume-production
- Development of 3 product-families for hygienic conveyors with direct food-contact
- Redesign of a challenging and compact mechanism for costprice, wear and noise
- Design of a small motorized roller (steel gears) competitive in the Chinese market
- Motorized pulleys for volume production
- Contactless-driven multi-roller system for active transit between large belting systems (asynchronous magnetic drive) for packages that must conserve orientation
- Development of a cyclo-drive reduction box
- Engineering of a pneumatic scissor lift for light-weight motorcycle
Food
- Simulation, verification and improvement of flow and cooling in spiral coolers
- Design of a mobile industrial demonstrator for a steamer/blancher/rehydrator that implements a patented process on a given set food-items
- Design of a conveyor product-family with a number of advanced heads for fiber-free PU belts in hygienic food applications
- Writing a solver to determine mass, length and position of a PU belt in free sections of a conveyor
- Design of various processing functions for leafy vegetables
- New compact heavy-duty oil-free drum motor for conveyor applications
- Thermal design-validation tool for application of drum motor in conveyor systems
- Identification and mapping of energy-efficient dehydration approaches at ambient-temperature
- Feasibility of high-efficiency desalination based on phase-change
- Sealing line for fruit and vegetable
Production machines
- Automatic machine to buffer and cut at high speed and high precision several hundred geometries of thick-walled injection-molded parts. Validation. Prototyping
- Developing a method and proof of technology for automatic void-filling to seal cut-surfaces of thick-walled injection-molding parts
- Design of a slurry-processing unit for production of building materials
- Design of a mobile industrial demonstrator for a steamer/blancher/re-hydrator that implements a patented process on a given set food-items
- Developing a method and proof of technology to separate bitumen from MFT in oil-sands
- Developing a low-energy method and industrial approach to dewater large streams of MFT (1 m3/sec)
- Design of gantry-crane and positioning system for bricks
- Strength calculations on conical mixers in the pharmaceutical industry
- Design of a molding system for composites with liquid epoxy-foam core material and high-gloss finish on both sides
- Web-handling lines (especially in the textile sector)
- Design of an internal lifting vehicle for large electric cabinets
Ship propulsion
- Displacement and fatigue analysis and subsequent improvement of an existing 400 kW retractable thruster for super-yachts
- Thermal analysis and subsequent improvement of an existing 400 kW retractable thruster for super-yachts
- Stage-gated technology development of flapping propulsors for container-carriers in collaboration with industry-leaders (Maersk, Wärtsilä, Marin)
- Design of an advanced mechatronic test and measurement unit for flapping propulsors
- Design of a systematic measurement program, performing measurements and publication of results
- Development of fin-construction methods with chord-wise flexibility
- Development of an efficient hydrostatic seal with simultaneous rotation and translation
- Design of a DC bus architecture that can resist initial short-circuit in diesel-electric installations
Offshore & energy conversion
- Design of a test and measurement-frame for tidal-turbines placed in a sluice in Den-Oever, NL
- Detailed design and optimization for fatigue with loads variable both in direction and intensity for various tidal turbines up to 500 kW (200kN thrust)
- Design-support activities for wind-turbines
- Design of a frame for sea-trials of tidal-turbines with a ship
- Design of a mobile and foldable maintenance and (lifting)handling frame for 15 T tidal turbines at the Oosterschelde dam
- Mechanical design and test of a 2MW linear generator utilizing wave-energy