Samara engineers in the final of the Case-In championship

A team of young specialists from the Samarsky branch of PJSC T Plus, TEMP, reached the finals of the Special T Plus League of the eighth International Engineering Case-In Championship. The young engineers were among the best in solving the case, which is dedicated to the technological modernization of the heating unit.

 The TEMP team included Maxim Erdman, chief specialist of the Economic Analysis Department, Vladimir Kurbatsky, leading specialist of the Communications Support Department, Dmitry Leontiev, leading engineer for the operation of the equipment of the ToTEC electrical workshop, Daniil Kurganov, senior electrician for electrical equipment maintenance, and Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, engineer of the central thermal control panel for ToTEC steam turbines. The team captain was Daria Trifonova, a leading engineer at the Department for Ensuring the technical condition of the generation.

The teams were given about 10 days to work out solutions. During this time, it was necessary to analyze the engineering component of the project and its economic feasibility. The projects of the teams were evaluated by the heads of departments of the corporate center and leading specialists of the branches of the companies, as well as representatives of the participating universities.

"Young generation Thermal Power Engineering" (this is how the name of the Samara thermal power plant team stands for) chose the thermal unit of the regional capital, in particular, the Nameless thermal power plant, as the object of optimization. Currently, this station is being converted into a heating boiler house. The gradual abandonment of electricity generation and steam generation sets the task for customers – large factories – to find a new source. As a possible way out of the situation, the young engineers of Samara proposed to build a steam boiler house on the territory of the BTEC on the basis of an incinerator and transfer it as an asset to a regional MSW operator.

The advantages of the Samara project are the availability at the BTPP of ready-to-use equipment involved in the technological process (HVAC, pumping station, steam pipeline), as well as the environmental effect of reducing by 15% the volume of municipal solid waste (MSW) accumulated in Samara and surrounding areas.

"We tried to look at the task as broadly as possible, analyzed not only the experience of our country, but also turned to international practices. MSW was chosen as the main fuel as the most affordable type of renewable energy sources in the region. Thus, we have proposed a project that will not only solve the issue of steam supply for key customers of the Aerospace Cluster when transferring the Bezymyanskaya CHPP to a boiler house, but also improve the environmental situation by reducing the volume of MSW disposal in the region," said team captain Daria Trifonova.

The final of the Eighth International Case-In Championship will be held this fall in Moscow.

A source: The official website of PJSC "T Plus"