Ticket to the final of the "CASE-IN" championship — for students of TIU

Three teams of Tyumen Industrial University have reached the final of the student league of the VIII International CASE-IN Championship, which will be held in Moscow. The defense of projects in the areas of "Oil and gas business", "Petrochemistry" and "Electric Power Industry" took place on the basis of the flagship university on April 21.

29 teams of bachelors and undergraduates from Tyumen Industrial University, the Branch of TIU in Tobolsk, Ural State Mining University, Kurgan and Tyumen State Universities took part in the qualifying stage. The guys performed tasks on the unified theme of the Championship "Technological Modernization" remotely, and the tasks for them were selected based on the materials of actual enterprises in the region. The teams were given 10 days to solve each case.

7 teams took part in the field of Oil and gas business, 14 teams in the field of Petrochemistry, and 8 in the field of Electric power engineering. Students of Tyumen Industrial University were able to retain the palm in all areas. Students of the flagship university also made up the top three, with the exception of the "True sight" team from Tyumen State University, which won second place in the field of Oil and Gas business.

Giving a second life to an ordinary plastic bottle is the task of the qualifying stage for future petrochemists. The NeZpRostykh team, led by Captain Alexei Kabanov, was the most successful in dealing with him. His team also includes Andrey Shabarchin, Ekaterina Bichevina and Georgy Klevtsov. This is the first time the team participates in the Championship with such a composition, but each of its members already has two or even three years of experience in such competitions.

The students' task is to modernize production so as to provide for the entire process from sorting raw materials to ready—made pellets for recycling.

"The most difficult thing was to develop a technology suitable for implementation at an existing enterprise, but we successfully coped. We proposed a complex chemolysis project that allows us to process PET bottles and obtain raw materials," Alexey said. – Our decision hooked the jury by the fact that we integrated our project into the current production and were able to describe it competently. We developed the solution together with all the team members back in Tyumen, and prepared for the defense remotely. This format is interesting and modern, so nothing prevented us from winning."

The "Idle circuit" team of the flagship university won in the field of "Electric power Industry". This team was formed in 2018, at the same time, for the first time, the guys won the qualifying stage and took third place in the championship final. In 2019, we won the spring qualifying round again, and in the same year we were able to get to the finals of the Autumn CASE-IN Cup. The team's composition has changed several times, with captain Andrey Logunov remaining permanent. It also includes Vladislav Rokhlov, Alexey Chertkov and Margarita Novoselova.

The task for the electric power industry was to develop solutions for the development and technological modernization of the energy interconnections of the CIS and the Baltic countries. According to the captain of the team, the assignment covered a wide range of issues, so it was difficult to decide in which direction to work.

"We have proposed solutions for the development of the Kaliningrad Region's energy system and cooperation with the Baltic States, considered several scenarios for the development of the situation, taking into account political and economic factors, and proposed the best option with the possibility of using the potential of innovative technologies. Perhaps it was the focus on a particular area that influenced the jury's decision," said Andrey Logunov.

The secret of the team's success: "Work on a tight schedule, leaving no time for doubt."

The participants of the "Oil and gas business" direction had to calculate the profitability of the field development. The Kill Fluid team coped brilliantly with the task. This is their third championship in the last six months. Led by Vyacheslav Popov, the guys assessed the problems of production and transportation of liquefied natural gas, offering their own version of the development of the Utrennoye field in the north of Yamal.

"I think we won over the jury with the scale, quality of comprehensive study and design of the presentation. There are no secrets to achieving victory, the more you do this, the more you will discover various aspects of the solution that will later bring victory," Vyacheslav Popov said.

TIU professors, as well as representatives of the industrial partners of the flagship university, acted as experts in these areas.: Gazprom Nedra LLC, Gazprom Pererabotka LLC, Schlumberger, PJSC NOVATEK, TNSC LLC, SIBUR Tobolsk LLC, Division-Management of Development Projects of the PIR branch of KogalymNIPIneft LLC, Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System — Southern Enterprise of Main Electric Networks, JSCSUENCO, JSC Rosseti Tyumen Tyumen Electric Networks.

According to the rules of the Championship, the teams that have won the first place are eligible for the finals. However, if the top three winners include third-party teams (not from the host university), they also have the right to go to the finals. Thus, four teams will go to Moscow for the finals: three from TIU – "Idle Circuit", "NezpRostykh", "Kill Fluid" and one from TSU – "True sight". There they will compete with teams from other universities in Russia and the CIS, and the winners will receive valuable prizes, the opportunity to participate in All-Russian industry summer forums, advantages in admission to graduate and postgraduate studies, and will also be able to complete internships at leading companies in the industry.

A source: TIU