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The final of the Main Season of CASE‑IN is still ahead. 

The results of the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN Championship have been summed up in Tomsk
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11 Mar 2021
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According to the results of the qualifying stage of the IX International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, four Tomsk State University teams took first and second places in the qualifying round and advanced to the next stage – the semifinals. In the field of "Geological Exploration", the winners were "Favorit 2.0" and Paradoxides, in the field of "Petrochemistry" – "Colleagues" and "Fraction". A total of 13 TSU teams took part in the championship: eight in Geological Exploration and five in Petrochemistry.

Tomsk State University has been participating in the CASE-IN championship since 2017, and all this time students have been showing stable results. high results having gold medals to his credit, among other things.

We remind you that the international engineering championship "CASE-IN" – it is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes, nuclear industry and related industries. This year's championship experts were TSU employees, representatives of SIBUR, ALROSA, Yuzhmorgeologiya, SNIGGIMS, Arctic Marine Engineering and Geological Expeditions, Nordgold Management, ZapSibNeftekhim, Gazpromneft– Vostok.

The CASE-IN Student League involves teams of three or four people – students, undergraduates and postgraduates under the age of 25, the final stage is held in Moscow. Ten days before the qualifying stage, the organizers send cases to the teams to solve. The presentation with the solution must be defended in front of the expert commission – it takes six minutes. The winners of the stage continue to fight.

"The tasks of the case in the direction of "Geological exploration" assumed a wide range of information and in-depth study. With a wide variety of anomalies and ore occurrences of different genetic types, the participants primarily considered the most win-win and quickly recoupable areas, such as gold-bearing placers., – said Elvira Kungulova, the curator of the department, a junior researcher at the TSU GGF Laboratory of Structural Petrology and Mineralogy. – But along with such simple facilities, the teams also proposed areas of rare earth, rare metal, and radioactive elements that are difficult to operate, and the development of which is cost-effective in the long term. This shows that students approached the case from different angles and independently considered the possibility of developing complex objects."

The teams were formed in such a way that they included students of different levels of training and with skills in different fields – for the most effective work. At the same time, undergraduates usually share their experiences with undergraduates, and they often have a fresher view of the problem outlined in the case.

The champions of the 2020 Student League, the Favorit 2.0 team, became the winner of the qualifying stage in the direction of "Geological Exploration".: Nikita Chernov, Norgay Bilinsky, Nikita Butkeev and Ilya Zagudaev.

"This is the second time we have participated in the championship, thanks to which we have learned how to work as a team and improved our practical knowledge in geological exploration., – noted the captain Nikita Chernov. – The most difficult thing was to process a large amount of information in a short time and be able to present the solution competently and clearly, and the most interesting thing was to identify promising areas for future exploration."

Silver medalists of the qualifying stage – Paradoxides team: Egor Oks (captain), Denis Degtyarev, Anastasia Petlina and Ilya Zavalny. 

In the field of Petrochemistry, the case proposed by PJSC SIBUR Holding was focused on the environmental sphere – "The company's product portfolio in the field of assessing the impact of products on sustainable development indicators."

"It would seem to be a difficult name, but the guys figured it out, and almost all the teams coped with the decision. They needed to identify the main environmental problems and project them onto SIBUR's economic performance, then identify the dirtiest production lines and, based on their knowledge, advise how a particular production could solve the problem. Basically, the teams chose the production of propylene and the processing of recycled polyethylene terephthalate. During these processes, certain reagents emit carbon dioxide, which adversely affects the environment.", – said the curator of the department of Petrochemistry, senior lecturer at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Chemical Faculty of TSU Mikhail Anishchenko.

Chairman of the expert jury of the Petrochemistry direction, Head of the ethylene polymerization plant of the Tomskneftekhim polyethylene production Vyacheslav Bugu noted that the teams offered interesting solutions to environmental problems, including those related to plastic recycling. 

"The most original decision was made by the Colleagues team, which was awarded the highest number of points by our jury. The guys analyzed the company's product portfolio and proposed a range of measures, in particular, the use of dust collectors and gas processing to reduce waste. At the same time, teams should pay more attention to the economic side of their projects.", – underlined Vyacheslav Bugu.

"Colleagues" became the best in Petrochemistry for the second year in a row: the captain of the team Mark Khainovsky, Egor Blinov, Olga Bobyleva and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

"Our team is very diverse: analyst Mikhail and Egor, responsible for the Sustainable Development Goals, are engaged in physical chemistry, economist Olga in management and economics, and I in quantum physics. By solving this case, we have learned to look at production from the point of view of strategists.", – He told me Mark Khainovsky.

In second place is the team "Fraction": captain Kristina Isakova, Polina Krivolapenko and Maria Stepanenko.

The CASE-IN project is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunities platform and is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education" in accordance with the action plan for the popularization of working and engineering professions approved by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. Since 2018, the championship has been held using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Fund. In 2019, the championship entered the top 15 Olympiads in the world according to the rating agency RAEX (RAEX Analytics).

 

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