Students from Magnitogorsk and Tyumen are finalists of the Autumn CASE-IN Cup

The 12 best university teams of the Ural Federal District competed for the right to participate in the decisive stage during the semi-finals of the Autumn Cup of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". As a result, students from Magnitogorsk and Tyumen were lucky, whose innovative projects surprised the experts the most.

The Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is part of the Presidential Platform "Russia is a land of opportunity", includes a whole network of competitions that allow schoolchildren, students and young specialists of fuel and energy complex and MSC enterprises to express themselves and take a step up the career ladder. One of them is the Autumn Cup, which is organized by Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit Partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and AstraLogica LLC.

24 teams sent their works to the qualifying stage of the Ural Federal District. Of these, 12 teams advanced to the semifinals, which remotely solved the case "Innovative and technological growth points on the map of international and Russian energy". The most important thing for the young engineers to do was to identify the growth point of their region, classify its partners, develop a unique technical solution, and present a partnership model that guarantees the development of various technological solutions.

The projects of the semi-finalists were evaluated by a competent jury, which included experts from St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University named after V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin), St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great, National Research Tomsk State University, Siberian State University Industrial University", Southern Federal University, Kazan National Research Technological University, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Rostov State University of Economics (RINH), JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System, Branch of JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System Saratov Regional Dispatch Management Systems, Gazprom Transgaz Surgut LLC, a branch of PJSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System – Main Electric Networks of the Urals.

The OiLine team, representing Tyumen State University, coped with the task best of all. Its participants: Anatoly Vladimirovich Andreev – captain, Dmitry Andreevich Bulatov, Sergey Genrikhovich Zainikaev, Maria Eduardovna Mokhnacheva. The guys have developed a project that will allow predicting emergency situations during oil and gas production and transportation due to the automatic processing of a large amount of data coming from pressure sensors. This will help reduce the downtime of wells for repairs and extract more natural resources.

"Participation in the Autumn Cup provides an opportunity to analyze the modern technology market and learn about the latest innovative projects that can be applied to solve real problems today. The key to our success is a great team. The first place motivates us to move on and participate in new championships!" emphasized Anatoly Andreev.

The second place went to the AEp-18-2 team from Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G.I.Nosov. Denis Sergeevich Zarubin (captain), Ivan Vitalievich Novikov and Regina Radikovna Sabirova proposed plasma gasification technology, which is designed to solve a wide range of tasks. One of them is the conversion of any type of waste (bio-waste, hazardous waste) into electricity/synthetic fuels (diesel fuel, ethanol) and other useful materials.

The United Mind team (Tyumen Industrial University) rounded out the top three winners, consisting of Salikhov Amir Damirovich (captain), Andreev Oleg Igorevich, Borzenko Anton Olegovich, Brevnova Victoria Nikolaevna.

"Our team proposed to modernize oil and gas equipment using active magnetic bearings as a unique technical solution. The most interesting, in our opinion, was the process of preparing the decision. While searching for information, we learned a lot of new and useful things. Overall, we are pleased with the result and thank the Reliable Change Foundation for the opportunity to prove ourselves," said Amir Salikhov.

However, the winning teams won't have time to rest on their laurels. Very soon, they will take part in the finals of the Fall Cup of the Student League "CASE-IN", which will be held in December in an online format.