SamSTU students have modernized the electric power industry and the oil and gas industry

Students of Samara State Technical University took part in the qualifying stage VIII International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is included in the presidential platform "Russia is a land of opportunity".

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

The championship is held in 57 universities in Russia and the CIS countries. During the qualifying stages in February – May 2020, more than 10,000 future and young engineers of the fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes solve engineering cases on the unified theme of the Championship "Technological Modernization" - one of the priority topics for the Russian and global economies.

The CASE-IN championship competitions were promptly switched to a remote format due to anti-epidemic measures in the regions of Russia: student teams presented their solutions online in the areas of "Electric power Industry" and "Oil and gas business". Experts – representatives of industry companies – also evaluated the students' ideas online and selected the best teams.

The competition was attended by teams from SamSTU, the branch of SamSTU in Syzran and a team of guests from Tolyatti State University.
The students worked out their ideas in just 10 days.

Future oilmen have proposed solutions to the problem of the production and transportation of liquefied natural gas and the development of the production of synthetic liquid and solid products from natural gas. The case was developed based on the materials of PJSC NOVATEK.

The ideas of the participants were evaluated by experts from PJSC Tatneft, SamSTU and SPbGEU.

The winner of the qualifying stage and the finalist was the Right Decision team: Dmitry Nikolaevich Pekhterev (team captain), Yulia Sergeevna Rudneva, Egor Alexandrovich Epishkin and Gorbevich Shushanyan.

"Our team has already participated in the CASE-IN championship last main season and in the Autumn Cup. This year's championship was held in an unusual online conference format. We believe that this is an additional opportunity to test our strength, quickly cooperate, find the right solution and defend the case," comments Dmitry Pekhterev, captain of the finalists, "our task was to propose a variant of the Yamal natural gas field. We chose the production of methanol, which has an added value of 5-6 times higher, and it is more profitable to produce it than liquefied natural gas. This year, the theme of the championship is "Technological modernization", and within the framework of this topic, we considered it necessary to suggest using domestic developments. We believe that there is a lot of scientific reserve in Russia, and there are many good patents that need to be implemented."

The Delo — Truba team received silver awards: Nikita E. Kochetkov (captain of the team), Alexandra Andreevna Kichigina and Valeria Alekseevna Avdeeva.

The third place was taken by the NTF team: Kondratyuk Artem Alekseevich (captain of the team), Sharonov Maxim Vladislavovich, Sergeev Nikita Konstantinovich and Grishin Roman Sergeevich.

The energy students presented ideas for the development of the UES of Russia and the energy systems of the CIS and Baltic energy union member countries. The case was developed based on the materials of JSC SO UES, a strategic partner of the Electric Power Industry.

The experts were representatives of the Branch of PJSC RusHydro − Zhiguli Hydroelectric Power Station, the Branch of JSC SO UES Samarskoye RDU, LLC SamaraNIPIneft, and the Branch of PJSC FGC UES of the Volga Electric Power Plant. The work of the expert commission was also attended by teachers of SamSTU, branches of SamSTU in Syzran and Novokuibyshevsk, IRNTU, Penza State University.

SamSTU will be represented in the final "CASE-IN" by the "Dispatch Application" team: Artem Alekseevich Savelyev (team captain), Artemiy Vitalievich Alexandrov, Denis Yurievich Borisov and Eldar Aleksandrovich Gilmanov. All team members are trained at the SamSTU Master's degree in a specialized training program commissioned by JSC SO UES.

"This is the third year that I have been participating in the engineering championship," says team captain Artyom Saveliev. "This year, the topic of the case was the technological modernization of the electric grid complex not only in Russia, but also in the CIS and Baltic countries. Due to the transition of the championship to online mode, our team has carried out painstaking work, starting from the organization of remote interaction with each other, ending with the preparation of video equipment to protect the solution. While working on the case, we gained a lot of knowledge and experience that will be useful in our lives and professional fields."

The second place was taken by the Orion team: Viktor Sergeevich Bashkov (team captain), Roman Eduardovich Kosolapushkin, Dmitry Alekseevich Dubovitskikh and Evgeny Dmitrievich Folomeev.

The bronze medalist of the qualifying stage is the KBR 2.0 team: Evgeny Vasilyevich Kukin (team captain), Kirill Yuryevich Dyatlov, Dmitry Andreevich Nikitin and Kirill Mikhailovich Polozov, the press service of the Reliable Change Foundation reports.

A source: NIA Samara