Thijs Hasselaar

Thijs Hasselaar

Senior Project Manager

Autonomy & Decision Support | Performance at Sea

Introduction

Specialised in performance determination and evaluation of ships both in service and through dedicated trials. Responsible for various Joint Industry Projects EU commerical and RD projects related to the powering performance pulling performance of tugs energy saving devices on ships and development of Autonomous ships. Professional interests relate to testing measurement and analysis and interpretation of data Autonomous shipping advanced instrumentation and sensors electronics experiment design handson installation of sensors and onsite trouble shootingBackgroud BSc. Mechanical Engineering 2002MSc. Marine engineering 2004PhD. Marine technology 2008

Expertise areas

Publications

Magazine

Sustainable Hydrogen IntegratedPropulsion Drives (SH2IPDRIVE)

8 Apr 2022

Reading time 6 minutes

The objective of SH2IPDRIVE is the development of reliable, safe, standardised, scalable and cost-effective solutions for zero-emission propulsion ...

Paper

Operational experience of using the international standard for bollard pull trials

25 Oct 2021

In 2019 the International Standard for Bollard Pull Trials was launched. Over the past 2 years a great number of bollard pull trials have been ...

Magazine

MARIN helps to increase the workability of SOVs

30 Sep 2021

Service Operation Vessels are used for installation and maintenance activities on offshore wind turbines. Thesevessels are typically equipped with ...

Magazine

New C-DRONE - for undisturbed wave spectrum measurements

17 Aug 2017

Reading time 3 minutes

During trials the correct measurement of metocean conditions is crucial for reproducibility, performance prediction and to avoid disputes between ...

Paper

Evaluation of an energy saving device via validation speed/power trials and full scale CFD investigation

21 Jan 2017

Energy saving devices (ESD)s designed to improve the propulsive efficiency of a ship are often designed and validated using CFD tools and model ...

Magazine

Developments in ship performance monitoring and analysis for CO2 emission reduction

19 Aug 2016

Reading time 3 minutes

In April 2015, the European Union adopted a mandatory Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) regulation for CO2 emissions resulting from ...

Paper

Ship Speed-Power Performance Assessment

20 Oct 2014

The speed/power characteristics of ships have always been at the core of ship design. To prove contractually agreed values, speed trials are ...

Magazine

Full-scale squat measurements

2 Aug 2011

Reading time 3 minutes

Rijkswaterstaat, which is part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, asked MARIN to investigate the possibility of allowing ...