It does not happen often, so when it does we want to take special notice of it. Thomas De Schutter graduated at the Master Engineering Systems at HAN University of Applied Sciences with a complete 10 mark on all items for his Major Project at the Master Track Automotive Systems. A great achievement!

Thomas came from Belgium to the Netherlands as part of a collaboration between hogeschool Thomas More and the HAN. He worked on the Clean Ship project at HAN Automotive Research Group (supervised by Frank Ahout and Menno Merts).

In this research project a low cost retrofit to diesel-methanol dual fuel is investigated. His objective for the thesis was to design a controller that will optimise the airflow that needs to bypass the intercooler so enough energy for methanol evaporation is available, when dual-fuel mode is on. In short: Intercooler control for a diesel-methanol-dual fuel engine.

The examiners were unanimous in the evaluation and Thomas received excellent commentary. According to the examiners Thomas has executed tests in a brilliant way. He found explanations and solutions for unexpected results.

Source and photography: HAN