Graduation Assignment HPU smart control

The role:

Intro

Royal IHC is looking for a smarter way of using an HPU to reduce consuming power and life time costs. Are you looking for an opportunity to investigate? A challenging project that will have a disruptive impact on the market? Do you enjoy using your creativity to find new solutions for a product that will help enable the energy transition?

Internship Project description

IHC-SAS-Hytop designs and delivers different sizes HPU’s, small sizes to operate a single winch up to large ones that supply a large pipe handling equipment, tensioners and other equipment.

Currently, HPU’s are often provided with variable piston pumps with high pressure control. The purpose of this control method is to always keep the pressure constant at the set value. As more oil flows through the system due to actuation of valves, the pressure will drop faster, to which the control will respond by increasing the d...