Cases that expand professional horizons

The semifinal stage of the Autumn Cup of the Student League of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the Southern Federal District was held on November 30 in an online format.

Two teams from the South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) competed to reach the finals of the prestigious competition, both representing the Faculty of Geology, Mining and Oil and Gas Engineering.

The Engineering and Drilling crew teams are new to the championship movement. However, they immediately managed to make themselves known and reached the semifinals of the Autumn Cup from 3rd and 4th places, respectively.

The participants of the semi−final were greeted by A.S. Korolev, Director of the Reliable Change Charitable Foundation, A.V. Serikov, Deputy General Director of ANO Russia - Land of Opportunities, and N.I. Petukhova, representative of Alrosa. Words of support were expressed to the young engineers, and the speakers expressed confidence that participation in the engineering championship would be an excellent springboard to a successful professional future for the students.

The Engineering team consists of students of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering and Technology, Captain Dmitry Donchenko, as well as Arsen Saidov and Anton Sobol.

- Our current task is to speak with dignity, to correctly convey information, to draw the attention of experts to the topic and the proposed solution, - Dmitry Donchenko shared his plans. - I hope our development will become useful as a new technology for carbon dioxide absorption and further processing. The project is called "Technologies for the introduction of equipment for processing and capturing greenhouse gases and their further processing into fuel (methane)." This is how we get rid of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which negatively affects the climate situation. This is the first time we have participated in such a tournament and we look forward to success.

The Drilling crew team consists of Captain Konstantin Kalinin, Alexander Krymov, Mikhail Kulyukin.

"The guys and I are classmates, fifth-year students," Alexander Krymov explained. - We got a non–standard topic for our specialty within the framework of the problem "Permafrost and the impact of greenhouse gases on it" - metallurgy. The development is called "Changing the traditional method of producing steel in blast furnaces." We propose constructive changes, and we consider it advisable to introduce additional equipment that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by more than 75 percent relative to traditional technology. According to our calculations, this will be economically beneficial for enterprises.

As the results of the competition day showed, the technology proposed by the Drilling crew team was appreciated by experts. The performance of the Drilling Crew (which is exactly how the team's name sounds in Russian) scored a total of 12.95 points, which allowed the guys to come in second place in the semi-finals of the championship!

The Engineering team eventually took the ninth semi-final place, scoring 11 points. It is worth noting that this is a worthy result, especially since according to the most important criterion "Originality and novelty of the solution (innovation)" the guys lost only to the winner, the team from VolGTU.

According to the rules, the winners of the semi-finals are the three teams from each federal district with the highest score. This means that the Drilling crew team will represent our university in the finals of the Autumn Cup of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which will be held in Moscow at the end of December.

We wish our Drilling Crew creative inspiration and success!

photo by George Trapizonian

A source: The press service of the YURGPU (NPI)